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Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the +ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of +pestilence: + +1:2. But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall +meditate day and night. + +1:3. And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running +waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf +shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper. + +1:4. Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind +driveth from the face of the earth. + +1:5. Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners +in the council of the just. + +1:6. For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked +shall perish. + +Psalms Chapter 2 + +Quare fremuerunt. + +The vain efforts of persecutors against Christ and his church. + +2:1. Why have the Gentiles raged, and the prople devised vain things? + +2:2. The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, +against the Lord, and against his Christ. + +2:3. Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke +from us. + +2:4. He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall +deride them. + +2:5. Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his +rage. + +2:6. But I am appointed king by him over Sion, his holy mountain, +preahing his comandment. + +2:7. The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten +thee. + +2:8. Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, +and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession. + +2:9. Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in +pieces like a potter's vessel. + +2:10. And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that +judge the earth. + +2:11. Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling. + +2:12. Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you +perish from the just way. + +2:13. When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all +they that trust in him. + +Psalms Chapter 3 + +Domine, quid multiplicati. + +The prophet's danger and delivery from his son Absalom: mystically, the +passion and resurrection of Christ. + +3:1. The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom. + +3:2 Why, O Lord, are they multipied that affict me? many are they who +rise up against me. + +3:3 Many say to my soul: There is no salvation for him in his God. + +3:4. But thou, O Lord, art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of +my head. + +3:5. I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from +his holy hill. + +3:6. I have slept and have taken my rest: and I have risen up, because +the Lord hath protected me. + +3:7. I will not fear thousands of the people surrounding me: arise, O +Lord; save me, O my God. + +3:8. For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: +thou hast broken the teeth of sinners. + +3:9. Salvation is of the Lord: and thy blessing is upon thy people. + +Psalms Chapter 4 + +Cum invocarem. + +The prophet teacheth us to flee to God in tribulation, with confidence +in him. + +4:1. Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David. + +Unto the end... Or, as St. Jerome renders it, victori, to him that +overcometh: which some understand of the chief musician; to whom they +suppose the psalms, which bear that title, were given to be sung: we +rather understand the psalms thus inscribed to refer to Christ, who is +the end of the law, and the great conqueror of death and hell, and to +the New Testament.-Ibid. In verses, in carminibus... In the Hebrew, it +is neghinoth, supposed by some to be a musical instrument, with which +this psalm was to be sung.-Ibid. For David, or to David... That is, +inspired to David himself, or to be sung. + +4:2. When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was +in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my +prayer. + +4:3. O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you +love vanity, and seek after lying? + +4:4. Know ye also that the Lord hath made his holy one wonderful: the +Lord will hear me when I shall cry unto him. + +4:5. Be ye angry, and sin not: the things you say in your hearts, be +sorry for them upon your beds. + +4:6. Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: many say, +Who sheweth us good things? + +4:7. The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast +given gladness in my heart. + +4:8. By the fruit of their corn, their wine, and oil, they rest: + +4:9. In peace in the self same I will sleep, and I will rest: + +4:10. For thou, O Lord, singularly hast settled me in hope. + +Psalms Chapter 5 + +Verba mea auribul. + +A prayer to God against the iniquities of men. + +5:1. Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for +David. + +For her that obtaineth the inheritance... That is, for the church of +Christ. + +5:2. Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry. + +5:3. Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God. + +5:4. For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my +voice. + +5:5. In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because +thou art not a God that willest iniquity. + +5:6. Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust +abide before thy eyes. + +5:7. Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that +speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor. + +5:8. But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy +house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear. + +5:9. Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct +my way in thy sight. + +5:10. For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain. + +5:11. Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with +their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: +according to the multitude of their wickednesses cast them out: for they +have provoked thee, O Lord. + +5:12. But let all them be glad that hope in thee: they shall rejoice for +ever, and thou shalt dwell in them. And all they that love thy name +shall glory in thee. + +5:13. For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou hast crowned us, as +with a shield of thy good will. + +Psalms Chapter 6 + +Domine, ne in furore. + +A prayer of a penitent sinner, under the scourge of God. The first +penitential psalm. + +6:1. Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave. + +For the octave... That is, to be sung on an instrument of eight strings. +St. Augustine understands it mystically, of the last resurrection, and +the world to come; which is, as it were, the octave, or eighth day, +after the seven days of this mortal life: and for this octave, sinners +must dispose themselves, like David, by bewailing their sins, whilst +they are here upon earth. + +6:2. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy +wrath. + +6:3. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak: heal me, O Lord, for my +bones are troubled. + +6:4. And my soul is troubled exceedingly: but thou, O Lord, how long? + +6:5. Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy's +sake. + +5:5. For there is no one indeath, that is mindful of thee: and who shall +confess to thee in hell? + +6:7. I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I +will water my couch with my tears. + +6:8. My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst +all my enemies. + +6:9. Depart from em, all ye workers of iniquity: for the Lord hath heard +the voice of my weeping. + +6:10. The Lord hath heard my supplication: the Lord hath received my +prayer. + +6:11. Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: let them +be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily. + +Psalms Chapter 7 + +Domine, Deus meus. + +David, trusting in the justice of his cause, prayeth for God's help +against his enemies. + +7:1. The psalm of David, which he sung to the Lord, for the words of +Chusi, the son of Jemini. + +7:2. O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; same me from all them +that persecute me, and deliver me. + +7:3. Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is +no one to redeem me, nor to save. + +7:4. O Lord, my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in +my hands: + +7:5. If I have rendered to them that repaid me evils, let me deservedly +fall empty before my enemies. + +7:6. Let the enemy pursue my soul, and take it, and tread down my life, +on the earth, and bring down my glory to the dust. + +7:7. Rise up, O Lord, in thy anger: and be thou exalted in the borders +of my enemies. And arise, O Lord, my God, in the precept which thou hast +commanded: + +7:8. And a congregation of people shall surround thee. And for their +sakes return thou on high. + +7:9. The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my +justice, and according to my innocence in me. + +7:10. The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought; and thou +shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God. + +7:11. Just is my help from the Lord; who saveth the upright of heart. + +7:12. God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day? + +7:13. Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath +bent his bow, and made it ready. + +7:14. And in it he hath prepared to instruments of death, he hath made +ready his arrows for them that burn. + +For them that burn... That is, against the persecutors of his saints. + +7:15. Behold he hath been in labour iwht injustice: he hath conceived +sorrow, and brought forth iniquity. + +7:16. He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he +made. + +7:17. His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall +come down upon his crown. + +7:18. I will give glory to the Lord according to his justice: and will +sing to the name of the Lord the most high. + +Psalms Chapter 8 + +Domine, Dominus noster. + +God is wonderful in his works; especially in mankind, singularly exalted +by the incarnation of Christ. + +8:1. Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm for David. + +The presses... In Hebrew, Gittith, supposed to be a musical instrument. + +8:2. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For +thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens. + +8:3. Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected +praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and +the avenger. + +8:4. For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon +and the stars which thou hast founded. + +8:5. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that +thou visitest him? + +8:6. Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned +him with glory and honour: + +8:7. And hast set him over the works of thy hands. + +8:8. Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: +moreover, the beasts also of the fields. + +8:9. The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through +the paths of the sea. + +8:10. O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! + +Psalms Chapter 9 + +Confitebor tibi, Domine. The church praiseth God for his protection +against her enemies. + +9:1. Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David. + +The hidden things of the Son... The humility and sufferings of Christ, +the Son of God; and of good Christians, who are his sons by adoption; +are called hidden things, with regard to the children of this world, who +know not the value and merit of them. + +9:2. I will give lpraise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will +relate all thy wonders. + +9:3. I will be glad, and rejoice inthee: I will sing to thy name, O thou +most high. + +9:4. When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and +perish before thy face. + +9:5. For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on +the throne, who judgest justice. + +9:6. Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; +thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever. + +9:7. The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities +thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise: + +9:8. But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in +judgment: + +9:9. And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the lpeople +in justice. + +9:10. And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time +in tribulation. + +9:11. And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not +forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord. + +9:12. Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among +the Gentiles: + +9:13. For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not +forgotten the cry of the poor. + +9:14. Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from +my enemies. + +9:15. Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may +declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion. + +9:16. I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in +the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the +very snare which they hid. + +9:17. The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner +hath been caught in the works of his own hands. + +9:18. The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget +God. + +9:19. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience +of the poor shall not perish for ever. + +9:20. Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be +judged in thy sight. + +9:21. Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: that the Gentiles may know +themselves to be but men. + +Here the late Hebrew doctors divide this psalm into two, making ver. 22 +the beginning of psalm 10. And again they join Psalms 146 and 147 into +one, in order that the whole number of psalms should not exceed 150. And +in this manner the psalms are numbered in the Protestant Bible. + +(Psalm Chapter 10 according to the Hebrews.) + +9:1. Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in +our wants, in the time of trouble? + +9:2. Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are +caught in the counsels which they devise. + +9:3. For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the +unjust man is blessed. + +9:4. The sinner hath provoked the Lord, according to the multitude of +his wrath, he will not seek him: + +9:5. God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy +judgments are removed form his sight: he shall rule over all his +enemies. + +9:6. For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation +to generation, and shall be without evil. + +9:7. His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deciet: +under his tongue are labour and sorrow. + +9:8. He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, that he may +kill the innocent. + +9:9. His eyes are upon the poor man: he lieth in wait, in secret, like a +lion in his den. He lieth in ambush, that he may catch the poor man: so +catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him. + +9:10. In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when +he shall have power over the poor. + +9:11. For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned +away his face, not to see to the end. + +9:12. Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: forget not the poor. + +9:13. Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath said in his +heart: He will not require it. + +9:14. Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou +mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou +wilt be a helper to the orphan. + +9:15. Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin +shall be sought, and shall not be found. + +9:16. The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye +Gentiles shall perish from his land. + +9:17. The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the +preparatgion of their heart. + +9:18. To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, that man may no +more presume to magnify himself upon earth. + +Psalms Chapter 10 + +In Domino confido. + +The just man's confidence in God in the midst of persecutions. + +10:1. Unto the end. A psalm to David. + +10:2. In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get +thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow. + +10:3. For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their +arows in the quiver, to shoot in the dark the upright of heart. + +10:4. For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what +has the just man done? + +10:5. The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven. +His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men. + +10:6. The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth +iniquity, hateth his own soul. + +10:7. He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms +of winds, shall be the portion of their cup. + +10:8. For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath +beheld righteousness. + +Psalms Chapter 11 + +Salvum me fac. + +The prophet calls for God's help against the wicked. + +11:1. Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David. + +11:2. Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed +from among the children of men. + +11:3. They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with +deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken. + +11:4. May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that +speaketh proud things. + +11:5. Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: +who is Lord over us? + +11:6. By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, +now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal +confidently in his regard. + +11:7. The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, +purged from the earth, refined seven times. + +11:8. Thou, O Lord, wilt preserve us: and keep us from this generation +for ever. + +11:9. The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast +multiplied the children of men. + +Psalms Chapter 12 + +Usquequo, Domine. + +A prayer in tribulation. + +12:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou +forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me? + +12:2. How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all +the day? + +12:3. How long shall my enemy be exalted over Me? + +12:4. Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I +never sleep in death: + +12:5. Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They +that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved: + +12:6. But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy +salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea, I +will sing to the name of the Lord, the most high. + +Psalms Chapter 13 + +Dixit insipiens. 1. + +The general corruption of man before our redemption by Christ. + +13:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: +There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their +ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. + +13:2. The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to +see if there be any that understand and seek God. + +13:3. They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: +there is none that doth good: no not one. Their throat is an open +sepulchre; with their tongues they acted deceitfully: the poison of asps +is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; +their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their +ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God +before their eyes. + +13:4. Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people +as they eat bread? + +13:5. They have not called upon the Lord: there have they trembled for +fear, where there was no fear. + +13:6. For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the +counsel of the poor man; but the Lord is his hope. + +13:7. Who shall give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when the Lord +shall have turned away the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, +and Israel shall be glad. + +Psalms Chapter 14 + +Domine, quis habitabit. + +What kind of men shall dwell in the heavenly Sion. + +14:1. A psalm for David. Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who +shall rest in thy holy hill? + +14:2. He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice: + +14:3. He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in +his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach +against his neighbours. + +14:4. In his sight the malignant is brought to nothing: but he +glorifieth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his neighbour, +and deceiveth not; + +14:5. He that hath not put out his money to usury, nortaken bribes +against the innocent: He that doth these things, chall not be moved for +ever. + +Psalms Chapter 15 + +Conserva me, Domine. + +Christ's future victory and triumph over the world and death. + +15:1. The inscription of a title to David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, +for I have put my trust in thee. + +The inscription of a title... That is, of a pillar or monument, +staylographia: which is as much as to say, that this psalm is most +worthy to be engraved on an everlasting monument. + +15:2. I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of +my goods. + +15:3. To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my +desires in them. + +15:4. Their infirmities were multiplied: afterwards they made haste. I +will not gather together their meetings for bloodofferings: nor will I +be mindful of their names by my lips. + +15:5. The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is +thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me. + +15:6. The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance +is goodly to me. + +15:7. I will bless the Lord, who hath given me understanding: moreover, +my reins also have corrected me even till night. + +15:8. I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand, +that I be not moved. + +15:9. Therefore my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: +moreover, my flesh also shall rest in hope. + +15:10. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give +thy holy one to see corruption. + +15:11. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me +with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to +the end. + +Psalms Chapter 16 + +Exaudi, Domine, justitiam. + +A just man's prayer in tribulation against the malice of his enemy. + +16:1. The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my +supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from +deceitful lips. + +16:2. Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes +behold the things that are equitable. + +16:3. Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast +tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me. + +16:4. That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the +words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways. + +16:5. Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not +moved. + +16:6. I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: O incline +thy ear unto me, and hear my words. + +16:7. Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust +in thee. + +16:8. From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy +eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings. + +16:9. From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have +surrounded my soul: + +16:10. They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly. + +Their fat... That is, their bowels of compassion: for they have none for +me. + +16:11. They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they +have set their eyes bowing down to the earth. + +16:12. They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a +young lion dwelling in secret places. + +16:13. Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him; deliver my soul +from the wicked one; thy sword + +16:14. From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of +the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. +They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the +rest of their substance. + +Divide them from the few, etc... That is, cut them off from the earth, +and the few trifling things thereof; which they are so proud of, or +divide them from the few; that is, from thy elect, who are but few; that +they may no longer have it in their power to oppress them. It is not +meant by way of a curse or imprecation; but, as many other the like +passages in the psalms, by way of a prediction, or prophecy of what +should come upon them, in punishment of their wickedness. Ibid. Thy +hidden stores... Thy secret treasures, out of which thou furnishest +those earthly goods, which, with a bountiful hand thou hast distributed +both to the good and the bad. + +16:15. But as for me, I will appear before thy sight in justice: I shall +be satisfied when thy glory shall appear. + +Psalms Chapter 17 + +Diligam te, Domine. + +David's thanks to God for his delivery from all his enemies. + +17:1. Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the +Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him +from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he +said: + +17:2. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: + +17:3. The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is +my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of +my salvation, and my support. + +17:4. Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my +enemies. + +17:5. The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity +troubled me. + +17:6. The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death +prevented me. + +17:7. In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: +And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came +into his ears. + +17:8. The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains +were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them. + +17:9. There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his +face: coals were kindled by it. + +17:10. He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his +feet. + +17:11. And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the +wings of the winds. + +17:12. And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him: +dark waters in the clouds of the air. + +17:13. At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and +coals of fire. + +17:14. And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his +voice: hail and coals of fire. + +17:15. And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he +multiplied lightnings, and troubled them. + +17:16. Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the +world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit +of thy wrath. + +17:17. He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many +waters. + +17:18. He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that +hated me: for they were too strong for me. + +17:19. They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord +became my rotector. + +17:20. And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because +he was well pleased with me. + +17:21. And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will +repay me according to the cleanness of my hands: + +17:22. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done +wickedly against my God. + +17:23. For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have +not put away from me. + +17:24. And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my +iniquity. + +17:25. And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and +according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes. + +17:26. With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou +wilt be innocent: + +17:27. And withe the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse +thou wilt be perverted. + +17:28. For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the +eyes of the proud. + +17:29. For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my +darkness. + +17:30. For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my +God I shall go over a wall. + +17:31. As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are +fire-tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him. + +17:32. For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God? + +17:33. God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless. + +17:34. Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me +upon high places. + +17:35. Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a +brazen bow. + +17:36. And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy +right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto +the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me. + +17:37. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not +weakened. + +17:38. I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not +turn again till they are consumed. + +17:39. I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they +shall fall under my feet. + +17:40. And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast +subdued under me them that rose up against me. + +17:41. And thou hast made my enemies furn their back upon me, and hast +destroyed them that hated me. + +17:42. They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he +heard them not. + +17:43. And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I +shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets. + +17:44. Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou +wilt make me head of the Gentiles. + +17:45. A people which I knew not, hath seerved me: at the hearing of the +ear they have obeyed me. + +17:46. The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children +have faded away, and have halted from their paths. + +17:47. The Lord liveth, and blessed by my God, and let the God of my +salvation be exalted. + +17:48. O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my +deliverer from my enraged enemies. + +17:49. And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from +the unjust man thou wilt deliver me. + +17:50. Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, +and I will sing a psalm to thy name. + +17:51. Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David, +his anointed: and to his seed for ever. + +Psalms Chapter 18 + +Coeli enarrant. + +The works of God shew forth his glory: his law is greatly to be esteemed +and loved. + +18:1. Unto the end. APsalm Chapter for David. + +18:2. The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament +declareth the work of his hands. + +18:3. Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night sheweth knowledge. + +18:4. There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not +heard. + +18:5. Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words +unto the ends of the world. + +18:6. He hath set his tabernacle in the sun: and he as a bridegroom +coming out of his bridechamber, Hath rejoiced as a giant to run the way: + +18:7. His going out is from the end of heaven, And his circuit even to +the end thereof: and ther is no one that can hide himself from his heat. + +18:8. The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony +of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. + +18:9. The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: the +commandment of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes. + +18:10. The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: the +judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves. + +18:11. More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and +sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. + +18:12. For thy servant keepeth them, and in keeping them there is a +great reward. + +18:13. Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord: + +18:14. And from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall have no +dominion over me, then shall I be without spot: and I shall be cleansed +form the greatest sin. + +18:15. And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please: and the +meditation of my heart always in thy sight. O Lord, my helper and my +Redeemer. + +Psalms Chapter 19 + +Exaudiat te Dominus. + +A prayer for the king. + +19:1. Unto the end. A psalm for David. + +19:2. May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of +the God of Jacob protect thee. + +19:3. May he send thee help from the sanctuary: and defend thee outof +Sion. + +19:4. May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole +burntoffering be made fat. + +19:5. May he give thee according to thy own heart; and confirm all thy +counsels. + +19:6. We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we +shall be exalted. + +19:7. The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord +hath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the +salvation of his right hand is in powers. + +The salvation of his right hand is in powers... That is, in strength. +His right hand is strong and mighty to save them that trust in him. + +19:8. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon +the name of the Lord, our God. + +19:9. They are bound, and have fallen: but we are risen, and are set +upright. O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall +call upon thee. + +Psalms Chapter 20 + +Domine, in virtute. + +Praise to God for Christ's exaltation after his passion. + +20:1. Unto the end. A psalm for David. + +20:2. In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation +he shall rejoice exceedingly. + +20:3. Thou hast given him his heart's desire: and hast not withholden +from him the will of his lips. + +20:4. For thou hast prevented him with belssings of sweetness: thou hast +set on his head a crown of precious stones. + +20:5. He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for +ever and ever. + +20:6. His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt +thou lay upon hom. + +20:7. For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou +shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance. + +20:8. For the king hopeth in the Lord: andthrough the mercy of the most +High he whall not be moved. + +20:9. Let thy hand be found by all thy enemies: let thy right hand find +out all them that hate thee. + +20:10. Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy +anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour +them. + +20:11. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed +from among the children of men. + +20:12. For they have intended evils against thee: they have devised +counsels which they have not been able to establish. + +20:13. For thou shalt make them turn their back: in thy remnants thou +shalt prepare their face. + +In thy remnants thou shalt prepare their face... Or thou shalt set thy +remnants against their faces. That is, thou shalt make them see what +punishments remain for them hereafter from thy justice. Instead of +remnants, St. Jerome renders it funes, that is, cords or strings, viz., +of the bow of divine justice, from which God directs his arrows against +the faces of his enemies. + +20:14. Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy own strength: we will sing and +praise thy power. + +Psalms Chapter 21 + +Deus Deus meus. + +Christ's passion: and the conversion of the Gentiles. + +21:1. Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. + +21:2. O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my +salvation are the words of my sins. + +The words of my sins... That is, the sins of the world, which I have +taken upon myself, cry out against me, and are the cause of all my +sufferings. + +21:3. O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by +night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me. + +21:4. But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel. + +21:5. In thee have our fathers hoped: they have hoped, and thou hast +delivered them. + +21:6. They cried to thee, and they were saved: they trusted in thee, and +were not confounded. + +21:7. Bukt I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast +of the prople. + +21:8. All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken +with the lips, and wagged the head. + +21:9. He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, +seeing he delighteth in him. + +21:10. For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from +the breasts of my mother. + +21:11. I was cast upon thee from the womb. From my mother's womb thou +art my God, + +21:12. Depart not from me. For tribulation is very near: for there is +none to help me. + +21:13. Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me. + +21:14. They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and +roaring. + +21:15. I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My +heart is become like wax melting in the midast of my bowels. + +21:16. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath +cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of +death. + +21:17. For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant +hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet. + +21:18. They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared +upon me. + +21:19. They lparted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they +cast lots. + +21:20. But thou, O Lord, remove not thy help to a distance from me; look +towards my defence. + +21:21. Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand +of the dog. + +21:22. Save me from the lion's mouth; and my lowness from the horns of +the unicorns. + +21:23. I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the +church will I praise thee. + +21:24. Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, +glorify him. + +21:25. Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted +nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned +away his face form me: and when I cried to him he heard me. + +21:26. With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in +the sight of them that fear him. + +21:27. The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the +Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever. + +21:28. All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted +to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his +sight. + +21:29. For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he shall have dominion over +the nations. + +21:30. All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all +they that go down to the earth shall fall before him. + +21:31. And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him. + +21:32. There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the +heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, +which the Lord hath made. + +Psalms Chapter 22 + +Dominus regit me. + +God's spiritual benefits to faithful souls. + +22:1. A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing. + +Ruleth me... In Hebrew, Is my shepherd, viz., to feed, guide, and govern +me. + +22:2. He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on +the water of refreshment: + +22:3. He hath converted my soul. He hath led me on the paths of justice, +for his own name's sake. + +22:4. For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I +will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they +have comforted me. + +22:5. Thou hast prepared a table before me against them that afflict me. +Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebreateth +me, how goodly is it! + +22:6. And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I +may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days. + +Psalms Chapter 23 + +Domini est terra. + +Who are they that shall ascend to heaven: Christ's triumphant ascension +thither. + +23:1. On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the +Lord's and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell +therein. + +23:2. For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon +the rivers. + +23:3. Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand +in his holy place? + +23:4. The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his +soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. + +23:5. He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his +Saviour. + +23:6. This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek +the face of the God of Jacob. + +23:7. Lift up your gates, O ye lprinces, and be ye lifted up, O eternal +gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in. + +23:8. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the +Lord mighty in battle. + +23:9. Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal +gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in. + +23:10. Who is this King of Glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of +Glory. + +Psalms Chapter 24 + +Ad te, Domine, levavi. + +A prayer for grace, mercy, and protection against our enemies. + +24:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up +my soul. + +24:2. In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed. + +24:3. Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on +thee shall be confounded. + +24:4. Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. +Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths. + +24:5. Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; +and on thee have I waited all the day long. + +24:6. Remember, O Lor, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that +are from the beginning of the world. + +24:7. The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According +to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord. + +24:8. The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to +sinners in the way. + +24:9. He will guide themild in judgment: he will teach the meek his +ways. + +24:10. All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek +after his covenant and his testimonies. + +24:11. For thy name's sake, O Lrod, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is +great. + +24:12. Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law +in the way he hath chosen. + +24:13. His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit +the land. + +24:14. The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant +shall be made manifest to them. + +24:15. My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out +of the snare. + +24:16. Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor. + +24:17. The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my +necessities. + +24:18. See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins. + +24:19. Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me +with an unjust hatred. + +24:20. Deep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I +have hoped in thee. + +24:21. The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have +waited on thee. + +24:22. Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations. + +Psalms Chapter 25 + +Judica me, Domine. + +David's prayer to God in his distress, to be delivered, that he may come +to worship him in his tabernacle. + +25:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have +walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall +not be weakened. + +25:2. Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart. + +25:3. For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy +truth. + +25:4. I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in +with the doers of unjust things. + +25:5. I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I +will not sit. + +25:6. I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy +altar, O Lord: + +25:7. That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy +wondrous works. + +25:8. I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where +thy glory dwelleth. + +25:9. Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with +bloody men: + +25:10. In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with +gifts. + +25:11. But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have +mercy on me. + +25:12. My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will +bless thee, O Lord. + +Psalms Chapter 26 + +Dominus illuminatio. + +David's faith and hope in God. + +26:1. The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light +and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my +life: of whom shall I be afraid? + +26:2. Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My +enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen. + +26:3. If armies in camp should stand to gether against me, my heart +shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be +confident. + +26:4. One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I +may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may +see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple. + +26:5. For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he +hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle. + +26:6. He hath exalted me upon a rock: and now he hath lifted up my head +above my enemies. I have gone round, and have offered up in his +tabernacle a sacrifice of jubilation: I will sing, and recite a psalm to +the Lord. + +26:7. Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have +mercy on me and hear me. + +26:8. My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O +Lord, will I still seek. + +26:9. Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy +servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O +God my Saviour. + +26:10. For my father and my mother have left me: but the Lord hath taken +me up. + +26:11. Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path, +because of my enemies. + +26:12. Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for +unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to +itself. + +26:13. I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the +living. + +26:14. Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and +wait thou for the Lord. + +Psalms Chapter 27 + +Ad te, Domine, clamabo. + +David's prayer that his enemies may not prevail over him. + +27:1. A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, +be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like +them that go down into the pit. + +27:2. Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; +when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple. + +27:3. Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of +iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils +are in their hearts. + +27:4. Give them according to their works, and according to the +wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands +give thou to them: render to them their reward. + +27:5. Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the +operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build +them up. + +27:6. Blessed be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my +supplication. + +27:7. The Lord is my helper andmy protector: in him hath my heart +confided, and I have been helped. And my flesh hath flourished again, +and with my will I will give praise to him. + +27:8. The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the +salvation of his anointed. + +27:9. Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them +and exalt them for ever. + +Psalms Chapter 28 + +Afferte Domino. + +An invitation to glorify God, with a commemoration of his mighty works. + +28:1. A psalm for David, at the finishing of the tabernacle. Bring to +the Lord, O ye children of God: bring to the Lord the offspring of rams. + +28:2. Bring to the Lord glory and honour: bring to the Lord glory to his +name: adore ye the Lord in his holy court. + +28:3. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath +thundered, The Lord is upon many waters. + +28:4. The voice of the Lord is in power; the voice of the Lord in +magnificence. + +28:5. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars: yea, the Lord shall +break the cedars of Libanus. + +28:6. And shall reduce them to pieces, as a calf of Libanus, and as the +beloved son of unicorns. + +Shall reduce them to pieces, etc... In Hebrew, shall make them to skip +like a calf. The psalmist here describes the effects of thunder (which +he calls the voice of the Lord) which sometimes breaks down the tallest +and strongest trees; and makes their broken branches skip, etc. All this +is to be understood mystically of the powerful voice of God's word in +his church; which has broken the pride of the great ones of this world, +and brought many of them meekly and joyfully to submit their necks to +the sweet yoke of Christ. + +28:7. The voice of the Lord divideth the flame of fire: + +28:8. The voice of the Lord shaketh the desert: and the Lord shall shake +the desert of Cades. + +28:9. The voice of the Lord prepareth the stags: and he will discover +the thick woods: and in his temple all shall speak his glory. + +28:10. The Lord maketh the flood to dwell: and the Lord shall sit king +for ever. The Lord will give strength to his people: the Lord will bless +his people with peace. + +Psalms Chapter 29 + +Exaltabo te, Domine. + +David praiseth God for his deliverance, and his merciful dealings with +him. + +29:1. A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of David's house. + +29:2. I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not +made my enemies to rejoice over me. + +29:3. O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, and thou hast healed me. + +29:4. Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast +saved me from them that go down into the pit. + +29:5. Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: and give praise to the memory +of his holiness. + +29:6. For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In the +evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness. + +29:7. And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved. + +29:8. O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou +turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled. + +29:9. To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my +God. + +29:10. What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? +Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth? + +29:11. The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became my +helper. + +29:12. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my +sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness: + +29:13. To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: +O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever. + +Psalms Chapter 30 + +In te, Domine, speravi. + +A prayer of a just man under affliction. + +30:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy. + +30:2. In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver +me in thy justice. + +30:3. Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me +a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me. + +30:4. For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake +thou wilt lead me, and nourish me. + +30:5. Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for +me: for thou art my protector. + +30:6. Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, +the God of truth. + +30:7. Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I +have hoped in the Lord: + +30:8. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my +humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses. + +30:9. And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast +set my feet in a spacious place. + +30:10. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled +with wrath, my soul, and my belly: + +30:11. For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My +strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed. + +30:12. I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my +neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled +from me. + +30:13. I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a +vessel that is destroyed. + +30:14. For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While +they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life. + +30:15. But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God. + +30:16. My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my +enemies; and from them that persecute me. + +30:17. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy. + +30:18. Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. +Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell. + +30:19. Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the +just, with pride and abuse. + +30:20. O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou +hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrougth for them +that hope inthee, in the sight of the sons of men. + +30:21. Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the +disturbance of men. Thoushalt protect them in thy tabernacle form the +contradiction of tongues. + +30:22. Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me +in a fortified city. + +30:23. But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before +thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried +to thee. + +30:24. O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require +truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly. + +30:25. Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that +hope in the Lord. + +Psalms Chapter 31 + +Beati quorum. + +The second penitential psalm. + +31:1. To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose iniquities +are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. + +31:2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not inputed sin, and in +whose spirit there is no guile. + +31:3. Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the +day long. + +Because I was silent, etc... That is, whilst I kept silence, by +concealing, or refusing to confess my sins, thy hand was heavy upon me, +etc. + +31:4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my +anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened. + +I am turned, etc... That is, I turn and roll about in my bed to seek for +ease in my pain whilst the thorn of thy justice pierces my flesh, and +sticks fast in me. Or, I am turned: that is, I am converted to thee, my +God, by being brought to a better understanding by thy chastisements. In +the Hebrew it is, my moisture is turned into the droughts of the summer. + +31:5. I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not +concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the +Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin. + +31:6. For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable +time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto +him. + +31:7. Thou art my fefuge from the trouble which hath eencompassed me: my +joy, deliver me from them that surround me. + +31:8. I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this +way, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee. + +31:9. Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no +understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not +near unto thee. + +31:10. Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass +him that hopeth in the Lord. + +31:11. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye +right of heart. + +Psalms Chapter 32 + +Exultate, justi. + +An exhortation to praise God, and to trust in him. + +32:1. A psalm for David. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise becometh +the upright. + +32:2. Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the +psaltery, the instrument of ten strings. + +32:3. Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise. + +32:4. For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with +faithfulness. + +32:5. He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of +the Lord. + +32:6. By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the +power of them by the spirit of his mouth: + +32:7. Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying +up the depths in storehouses. + +32:8. Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of +the world be in awe of him. + +32:9. For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were +created. + +32:10. The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he +rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of +princes. + +32:11. But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of +his heart to all generations. + +32:12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he +hath chosen for his inheritance. + +32:13. The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of +men. + +32:14. From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon +all that dwell on the earth. + +32:15. He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: who +understandeth all their works. + +32:16. The king is not saved by a great army: nor shall the giant be +saved by his own great strength. + +32:17. Vain is the horse for safety: neither shall he be saved by the +abundance of his strength. + +32:18. Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on +them that hope in his mercy. + +32:19. To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine. + +32:20. Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and +protector. + +32:21. For in him our heart shall rejoice: and in his holy name we have +trusted. + +32:22. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hooped in thee. + +Psalms Chapter 33 + +Benedicam Dominum. + +An exhortation to the praise, and service of God. + +33:1. For David, when he changed his countenance before Achimelech, who +dismissed him, and he went his way. [1 Kings 21.] + +33:2. I will belss the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in +my mouth. + +33:3. In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and +rejoice. + +33:4. O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together. + +33:5. I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all +my troubles. + +33:6. Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be +confounded. + +33:7. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of +all his troubles. + +33:8. The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: +and shall deliver them. + +33:9. O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that +hopeth in him. + +33:10. Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them +that fear him. + +33:11. The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that +seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good. + +33:12. Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the +Lord. + +33:13. Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days? + +33:14. Keep thy tongue form evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. + +33:15. Tkurn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it. + +33:16. The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their +prayers. + +33:17. But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil +things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. + +33:18. The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out +of all their troubles. + +33:19. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he +will save the humble of spirit. + +33:20. Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will +the Lord deliver them. + +33:21. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he +will save the humble of spirit. + +33:22. The death of the wicked is very evil: and they that hate the just +shall be guilty. + +33:23. The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none of them +that trust in him shall offend. + +Psalms Chapter 34 + +Judica, Domine, nocentes me. + +David, in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors: +prophetecally foreshewing the punishments that shall fall upon them. + +34:1. For David himself. Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: +overthrow them that fight against me. + +34:2. Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me. + +34:3. Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that +persecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation. + +34:4. Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let +them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me. + +34:5. Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the +Lord straiten them. + +34:6. Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the +Lord pursue them. + +34:7. For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto +destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul. + +34:8. Let the snae which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net +which he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall. + +34:9. But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and shall be delighted in +his salvation. + +34:10. All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest +the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and +the poor from them that strip him. + +34:11. Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not. + +34:12. They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul. + +34:13. But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed +with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be +turned into my bosom. + +34:14. As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one +mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled. + +34:15. But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were +gathered together upon me, and I knew not. + +34:16. They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they +scoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed ukpon me with their teeth. + +34:17. Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? rescue thou my soul from their +malice: my only one from the lions. + +34:18. I will give thanks to thee in a great church; I will praise thee +in a strong people. + +34:19. Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who +have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes. + +34:20. For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger +of the earth they devised guile. + +34:21. And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said: Well +done, well done, our eyes have seen it. + +34:22. Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not +from me. + +34:23. Arise, and be attentive to my judgment: to my cause, my God, and +my Lord. + +34:24. Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, and let them +not rejoice over me. + +34:25. Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our +mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up. + +34:26. Let them blush: and be ashamed to gether, who rejoice at my +evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great +things against me. + +34:27. Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my +justice, and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights in +the peace of his servant. + +34:28. And my tongue shall meditate thy justice, thy praise all the day +long. + +Psalms Chapter 35 + +Dixit injustus. + +The malice of sinners, and the goodness of God. + +35:1. Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself. + +35:2. The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is +no fear of God before his eyes. + +35:3. For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may +be found unto hatred. + +Unto hatred... That is, hateful to God. + +35:4. The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not +understand that he might do well. + +35:5. He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every +way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated. + +35:6. O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the +clouds. + +35:7. Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great +deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord: + +35:8. O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of +men shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings. + +35:9. They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou +shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure. + +35:10. For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall +see light. + +35:11. Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, and thy justice to them +that are right in heart. + +35:12. Let not the foot of pride come to me, and let not the hand of the +sinner move me. + +35:13. There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and +could not stand. + +Psalms Chapter 36 + +Noli aemulari. + +An exhortation to despise this world; and the short prosperity of the +wicked; and to trust in Providence. + +36:1. Be not emulous of evildoers; nor envy them that work iniquity. + +36:2. For they shall shortly wither away as grass, and as the green +herbs shall quickly fall. + +36:3. Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou +shalt be fed with its riches. + +36:4. Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy +heart. + +36:5. Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it. + +36:6. And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment +as the noonday. + +36:7. Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who +prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things. + +36:8. Cease from anger, and leave rage; have no emulation to do evil. + +36:9. For evildoers shall be cut off: but they that wait upon the Lord, +they shall inherit the land. + +36:10. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou +shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it. + +36:11. But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in +abundance of peace. + +36:12. The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him +with his teeth. + +36:13. But the Lord shall laugh at him: for he foreseeth that his day +shall come. + +36:14. The wicked have drawn out the sword: they have bent their bow. To +cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart. + +36:15. Let their sword enter into their own hearts, andlet their bow be +broken. + +36:16. Better is a little to the just, than the great riches of the +wicked. + +36:17. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken in pieces; but the +Lord strengtheneth the just. + +36:18. The Lord knoweth the days of the undefiled; and their inheritance +shall be for ever. + +36:19. They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days of +famine they shall be filled: + +36:20. Because the wicked shall perish. And the enemies of the Lord, +presently after they shall be honoured and exalted, shall come to +nothing and vanish like smoke. + +36:21. The sinner shall borrow, and not pay again; but the just sheweth +mercy and shall give. + +36:22. For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse +him shall perish. + +36:23. With the Lord shall the steps of a man be directed, and he shall +like well his way. + +36:24. When he shall fall he shall not be bruised, for the Lord putteth +his hand under him. + +36:25. I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just +forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread. + +36:26. He sheweth mercy, and lendeth all the day long; and his seed +shall be in blessing. + +36:27. Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever. + +36:28. For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: +they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the +seed of the wicked shall perish. + +36:29. But the just shall inherit the land, and shall dwell therein for +evermore. + +36:30. The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall +speak judgment. + +36:31. The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be +supplanted. + +36:32. The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to +death, + +36:33. But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him +when he shall be judged. + +36:34. Expect the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to +inherit the land: when the sinners shall perish thou shalt see. + +36:35. I have seen the wicked highly exalted, and lifted ukp like the +cedars of Libanus. + +36:36. And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his +place was not found. + +36:37. Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for +the peaceable man. + +36:38. But the unjust shall be destroyed to gether: the remnants of the +wicked shall perish. + +36:39. But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their +protector in the time of trouble. + +36:40. And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue +them from the wicked, and save them because they have hoped in him. + +Psalms Chapter 37 + +Domine, ne in furore. + +A prayer of a penitent for the remission of his sins. The third +penitential psalm. + +37:1. A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath. + +For a remembrance... Viz., of our miseries and sins: and to be sung on +the sabbath day. + +37:2. Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy +wrath. + +37:3. For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong +upon me. + +37:4. There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no +peace for my bones, because of my sins. + +37:5. For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are +become heavy upon me. + +37:6. My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness. + +37:7. I am bcome miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked +sorrowfull all the day long. + +37:8. For my loins are filled with illusions; and there isno health in +my flesh. + +37:9. I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning +of my heart. + +37:10. Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden +from thee. + +37:11. My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of +my eyes itself is not with me. + +37:12. My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against +me. And they that were near me stood afar off: + +37:13. And they that sought my soul used violence. And they that sought +evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long. + +37:14. But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening +his mouth. + +37:15. And I became as a man that heareth not: and that hath no reproofs +in his mouth. + +37:16. For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou wilt hear me, O Lord my +God. + +37:17. For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and +whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me. + +37:18. For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before +me. + +37:19. For I will declare my iniquity: and I will think formy sin. + +37:20. But my enemies live, and are stronger than I: and they that hate +me wrongfully are ultiplied. + +37:21. They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I +followed goodness. + +37:22. For sake me not, O Lord my God: do not thou depart from me. + +37:23. Attend unto my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation. + +Psalms Chapter 38 + +Dixi custodiam. + +A just man's peace and patience in his sufferings; considering the +vanity of the world, and the providence of God. + +38:1. Unto the end, for Idithun himself, a canticle of David. + +38:2. I said: I will take heed to my ways: that I sin not with my +tongue. I have set a guard to my mouth, when the sinner stood against +me. + +38:3. I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: +and my sorrow was renewed. + +38:4. My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditqation a fire shall +flame out. + +38:5. I spoke with my tongue: O Lord, make me know my end. And what is +the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me. + +38:6. Behold thou hast made my days measurable and my substance is as +nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vantiy: every man living. + +38:7. Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. +He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things. + +38:8. And now what is my hope? is it not the Lord? and my substance is +with thee. + +38:9. Deliver thou me from all my iniquities: thou hast made me a +reproach to the fool. + +38:10. I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it. + +38:11. Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made +me faint in rebukes: + +38:12. Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul +to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted. + +38:13. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my +tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as +all my fathers were. + +38:14. O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be +no more. + +Psalms Chapter 39 + +Expectans expectavi. + +Christ's coming, and redeeming mankind. + +39:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. + +39:2. With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive +to me. + +39:3. And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery +and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my +steps. + +39:4. And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many +shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord. + +39:5. Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who +hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies. + +39:6. Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in +thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have +spoken they are multiplied above number. + +39:7. Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast +pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not +require: + +39:8. Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written +of me + +39:9. That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy +law in the midst of my heart. + +39:10. I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not +restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it. + +39:11. I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy +truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth +from a great council. + +39:12. Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy +and thy truth have always upheld me. + +39:13. For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have +overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the +hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me. + +My iniquities... That is, the sins of all mankind, which I have taken +upon me. + +39:14. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Look down, O Lord, to help me. + +39:15. Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my +soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that +desire evils to me. + +39:16. Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: 'T is +well, t' is well. + +'T is well... The Hebrew here is an interjection of insult and derision, +like the Vah. Matt. 27.49. + +39:17. Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such +as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified. + +39:18. But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art +my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack. + +Psalms Chapter 40 + +Beatus qui intelligit. + +The happiness of him that shall believe in Christ; notwithstanding the +humility and poverty in which he shall come: the malice of his enemies, +especially of the traitor Judas. + +40:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. + +40:2. Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the +poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. + +40:3. The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon +the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies. + +40:4. The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his +couch in his sickness. + +40:5. I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have +sinned against thee. + +40:6. My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his +name perish? + +40:7. And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart +gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same +purpose. + +40:8. All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils +to me. + +40:9. They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth +rise again no more? + +40:10. For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my +bread, hath greatly supplanted me. + +40:11. But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise my up again: and I +will requite them. + +40:12. By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my +enemy shall not rejoice over me. + +40:13. But thou hast upheldme by reason of my innocence: and hast +established me in thy sight for ever. + +40:14. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. +So be it. So be it. + +Psalms Chapter 41 + +Quemadmodum desiderat. + +The fervent desire of the just after God: hope in afflictions. + +41:1. Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. + +41:2. As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul +panteth after thee, O God. + +41:3. My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I +come and appear before the face of God? + +41:4. My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me +daily: Where is thy God? + +41:5. These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I +shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the +house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one +feasting. + +41:6. Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in +God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my +countenance, + +41:7. And my God. My soul is troubled within my self: therefore will I +remember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermoniim, from the little +hill. + +41:8. Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy +heights and thy billows have passed over me. + +41:9. In the daytime the Lord hath commanded hismercy; and a canticle to +him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life. + +41:10. I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten +me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me? + +41:11. Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who troubleme have +reproached me; Whilst they say to me day be day: Where is thy God? + +41:12. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? +Hope thou in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of +my countenance, and my God. + +Psalms Chapter 42 + +Judica me, Deus. + +The prophet aspireth after the temple and altar of God. + +42:1. A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from +the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful +man. + +42:2. For thou art God my strrength: why hast thou cast me off? and why +do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me? + +42:3. Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and +brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles. + +42:4. And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my +youth. + +42:5. To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art +thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? + +42:6. Hope in God, for I will still give pralise to him: the salvation +of my countenance, and my God. + +Psalms Chapter 43 + +Deus auribus nostris. + +The church commemorates former favours, and present afflictions; under +which she prays for succour. + +43:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding. + +43:2. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to +us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old. + +43:3. Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou +didst aflict the people and cast them out. + +43:4. For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: +neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and +the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them. + +43:5. Thou art thyself my king andmy God, who commandest the saving of +Jacob. + +43:6. Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and +through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us. + +43:7. For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me. + +43:8. But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put +them to shame that hate us. + +43:9. In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will +give praise for ever. + +43:10. But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, +O God, wilt not go out with our armies. + +43:11. Thou hast made kus turn our back to our enemies: and they that +hated us plundered for themselves. + +43:12. Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered +us among the nations. + +43:13. Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no +reckoning in the exchange of them. + +43:14. Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and +derision to them that are round about us. + +43:15. Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the +head among the people. + +43:16. All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my +face hath covered me, + +43:17. At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the +face of the enemy and persecutor. + +43:18. All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten +thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant. + +43:19. And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned +aside our steps from thy way. + +43:20. For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the +shadow of death hath covered us. + +43:21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread +forth our hands to a strange god: + +43:22. Shall not God search out thesethings: for he knoweth the secrets +of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we +are counted as sheep for the slaughter. + +43:23. Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to +the end. + +43:24. Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our +trouble? + +43:25. For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to +the earth. + +43:26. Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake. + +Psalms Chapter 44 + +Eructavit cor meum. + +The excellence of Christ's kingdom, and the endowments of his church. + +44:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of +Core, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved. + +For them that shall be changed... i.e., for souls happily changed, by +being converted to God.-Ibid. The Beloved... Viz., Our Lord Jesus +Christ. + +44:2. My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king: +My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly. + +44:3. Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad +in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever. + +44:4. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty. + +44:5. With thy comeliness and thy beauty set out, proceed prosperously, +and reign. Because of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right hand +shall conduct thee wonderfully. + +44:6. Thy arrows are sharp: under thee shall people fall, into the +hearts of the king's enemies. + +44:7. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom +is a sceptre of uprightness. + +44:8. Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy +God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. + +44:9. Myrrh and stacte and cassia perfume thy garments, from the ivory +houses: out of which + +44:10. The daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy glory. The +queen stood on thy right hand, in gilded clothing; surrounded with +variety. + +44:11. Hearken, O daughter, and see, and incline thy ear: and forget thy +people and thy father's house. + +44:12. And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty; for he is the Lord +thy God, and him they shall adore. + +44:13. And the daughters of Tyre with gifts, yea, all the rich among the +people, shall entreat thy countenance. + +44:14. All the glory of the king's daughter is within in golden borders, + +44:15. Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be +brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee. + +44:16. They shall be brought with gladness and rejoicing: they shall be +brought into the temple of the king. + +44:17. Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make +them princes over all the earth. + +44:18. They shall remember thy name throughout all generations. +Therefore shall people praise thee for ever; yea, for ever and ever. + +Psalms Chapter 45 + +Deus noster refugium. + +The church in persecution trusteth in the protection of God. + +45:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden. + +45:2. Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which +have found us exceedingly. + +45:3. Therefore we will not fear, when the earth shall be troubled; and +the mountains shall be removed into the heart of the sea. + +45:4. Their waters roared and were troubled: the mountains were troubled +with his strength. + +45:5. The stream of the river maketh the city of God joyful: the most +High hath sanctified his own tabernacle. + +45:6. God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help +it in the lmorning early. + +45:7. Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered +his voice, the earth trembled. + +45:8. The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector. + +45:9. Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath +done upon earth, + +45:10. Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall +destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in +the fire. + +45:11. Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the +nations, and I will be exalted in the earth. + +45:12. The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector. + +Psalms Chapter 46 + +Omnes gentes, plaudite. + +The Gentiles are invited to praise God for the establishment of the +kingdom of Christ. + +46:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core. + +46:2. O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice +of joy, + +46:3. For the Lord is high, terrible: a great king over all the earth. + +46:4. He hath subdued the people under jus; and the nations under our +feet. + +46:5. He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which +he hath love. + +46:6. God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of +trumpet. + +46:7. Sing praises to our God, sing ye: sing praises to our king, sing +ye. + +46:8. For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye wisely. + +46:9. God shall reign over the nations: God sitteth on his holy throne. + +46:10. The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of +Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted. + +Psalms Chapter 47 + +Magnus Dominus. + +God is greatly to be praised for the establishment of his church. + +47:1. A psalm of a canticle, for the sons of Core, on the second day of +the week. + +47:2. Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of +our God, in his holy mountain. + +47:3. With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the +sides of the north, the city of the great king. + +47:4. In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her. + +47:5. For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they +gathered together. + +47:6. So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were +moved: + +47:7. Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in +labour. + +47:8. With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of +Tharsis. + +47:9. As we have heard, so have we seen, in the city of the Lord of +hosts, in the city of our God: God hath founded it for ever. + +47:10. We have received thy mercy, O God, in the midst of thy temple. + +47:11. According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise kunto the +ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice. + +47:12. Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; +because of thy judgments, O Lord. + +47:13. Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell lye in her towers. + +47:14. Set your hearts on her strength; and distribute her houses, that +ye may relate it in another generation. + +47:15. For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he +shall rule us for evermore. + +Psalms Chapter 48 + +Audite haec, omnes gentes. + +The folly of worldlings, who live on in sin, without thinking of death +or hell. + +48:1. Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. + +48:2. Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of +the world. + +48:3. All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and +poor together. + +48:4. My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart +understanding. + +48:5. I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on +the psaltery. + +48:6. Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall +encompass me. + +The iniquity of my heel... That is, the iniquity of my steps or ways: or +the iniquity of my pride, with which as with the heel, I have spurned +and kicked at my neighbours: or the iniquity of my heel, that is, the +iniquity in which I shall be found in death. The meaning of this verse +is, Why should I now indulge those passions and sinful affections, or +commit now those sins, which will cause me so much fear and anguish in +the evil day; when the sorrows of death shall compass me, and the perils +of hell shall find me? + +48:7. They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude +of their riches, + +They that trust, etc... As much as to say, let them fear that trust in +their strength or riches: for they have great reason to fear: seeing no +brother or other man, how much a friend soever, can by any price or +labour rescue them from death. + +48:8. No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to +God his ransom, + +48:9. Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for +ever, + +And shall labour for ever, etc... This seems to be a continuation of the +foregoing sentence: as much as to say no man can by any price or ransom +prolong his life, that so he may still continue to labour here, and live +to the end of the world. Others understand it of the eternal sorrows, +and dying life of hell, which is the dreadful consequence of dying in +sin. + +48:10. And shall still live unto the end. + +48:11. He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: +the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave +their riches to strangers: + +He shall not see destruction, etc... Or, shall he not see destruction? +As much as to say, however thoughtless he may be of his death, he must +not expect to escape; when even the wise and the good are not exempt +from dying. + +48:12. And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their +dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by +their names. + +They have called, etc... That is, they have left their names on their +graves, which alone remain of their lands. + +48:13. And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared +to senseless beasts, and is become like to them. + +48:14. This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards +they shall delight in their mouth. + +They shall delight in their mouth... Notwithstanding the wretched way in +which they walk, they shall applaud themselves with their mouths, and +glory in their doings. + +48:15. They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And +the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help +shall decay in hell from their glory. + +In the morning... That is, in the resurrection to a new life; when the +just shall judge and condemn the wicked. Ibid. From their glory... That +is, when their short-lived glory in this world shall be past, and be no +more. + +48:16. But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall +receive me. + +48:17. Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rick, and when the +glory of his house shall be increased. + +48:18. For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his +glory descend with him. + +48:19. For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise +thee when thou shalt do well to him. + +48:20. He shall g in to the gneerations of his fathers: and he shall +never see light. + +48:21. Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been +compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them. + +Psalms Chapter 49 + +Deus deorum. + +The coming of Christ: who prefers virtue and inward purity before the +blood of victims. + +49:1. A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he +hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down +thereof: + +49:2. Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty. + +49:3. God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep +silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be +round about him. + +49:4. He shall call heraven from above, and the earth, to judge his +people. + +49:5. Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before +sacrifices. + +49:6. And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge. + +49:7. Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify +to thee: I am God, thy God. + +49:8. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt +offerings are always in my sight. + +49:9. I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy +flocks. + +49:10. For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the +hills, and the oxen. + +49:11. I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the +field. + +49:12. If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is +mine, and the fulness thereof. + +49:13. Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of +goats? + +49:14. Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the +most High. + +49:15. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and +thou shalt glorify me. + +49:16. But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my +justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? + +49:17. Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind +thee. + +49:18. If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with +adulterers thou hast been a partaker. + +49:19. Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits. + +49:20. Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a +scandal against thy mother's son: + +49:21. These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest +unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set +before thy face. + +49:22. Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you +away, and there be none to deliver you. + +49:23. The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by +which I will shew him the salvation of God. + +Psalms Chapter 50 + +Miserere. + +The repentance and confession of David after his sin. The fourth +penitential psalm. + +50:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David, + +50:2. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with +Bethsabee. [2 Kings 12.] + +50:3. Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And +according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity. + +50:4. Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. + +50:5. For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me. + +50:6. To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil befoer thee: that +thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art +judged. + +50:7. For behold I was conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my +mother conceive me. + +50:8. For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things +of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me. + +50:9. Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: thou +shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow. + +50:10. To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones +that have been humbled shall rejoice. + +50:11. Tukrn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. + +50:12. Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit +within my bowels. + +50:13. Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from +me. + +50:14. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with +a perfect spirit. + +50:15. I will teach the unjust thy ways: and the wicked shall be +converted to thee. + +50:16. Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my +tongue shall extol thy justice. + +50:17. O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy +praise. + +50:18. For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given +it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted. + +50:19. A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled +heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. + +50:20. Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the +walls of Jerusalem may be built up. + +50:21. Then shalt thou accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations and +whole burnt offerings: then shall they lay calves upon thy altar. + +Psalms Chapter 51 + +Quid gloriaris. + +David condemneth the wickedness of Doeg, and foretelleth his +destruction. + +51:1. Unto the end, understanding for David, + +51:2. When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house +of Achimelech. + +51:3. Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity? + +51:4. All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp +razor, thou hast wrought deceit. + +51:5. Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather +than to speak righteousness. + +51:6. Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue. + +51:7. Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, +and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of +the living. + +51:8. The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say: + +51:9. Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the +abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity. + +51:10. But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped +in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever and ever. + +51:11. I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I +will wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints. + +Psalms Chapter 52 + +Dixit insipiens. + +The general corruption of man before the coming of Christ. + +52:1. Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said +in his heart: There is no God. + +Maeleth... Or Machalath. A musical instrument, or a chorus of musicians, +for St. Jerome renders it, per chorum. + +52:2. They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is +none that doth good. + +52:3. God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if +there were any that did understand, or did seek God. + +52:4. All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable toegther, there +is none that doth good, no not one. + +52:5. Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people +as they eat bread? + +52:6. They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, +where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that +please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them. + +God hath scattered the bones, etc... That is, God has brought to nothing +the strength of all those that seek to please men, to the prejudice of +their duty to their Maker. + +52:7. Who will give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when God shall +bring back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel +shall be glad. + +Psalms Chapter 53 + +Deus, in nomine tuo. + +A prayer for help in destress. + +53:1. Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David. + + +53:2. When the en of Ziph had come and said to Saul: Is not David hidden +with us? [1 Kings 23.19] + +53:3. Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength. + +53:4. O God, hear my lprayer: give ear to the words of my mouth. + +53:5. For strangers have rrisen up against me; and the mighty have +sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes. + +53:6. For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my +soul. + +53:7. Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in thy +truth. + +53:8. I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to +thy name: because it is good: + +53:9. For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath +looked down upon my enemies. + +Psalms Chapter 54 + +Exaudi, Deus. + +A prayer of a just man under persecution from the wicked. It agrees to +Christ persecuted by the Jews, and betrayed by Judas. + +54:1. Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David. + +54:2. Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not lmy supplication: + +54:3. Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and +am troubled, + +54:4. At the voice of the enemy, and at the tribulation of the sinner. +For they have cast iniquities upon me: and in wrath they were +troublesome to me. + +54:5. My heart is troubled within me: and the fear of death is fallen +upon me. + +54:6. Fear and trembling are come upon me: and darkness hath covered me. + +54:7. And I said: Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and +be at rest? + +54:8. Lo, I have gone far off flying away; and I abode in the +wilderness. + +54:9. I waited for him that hath saved me from pusillanimity of spirit, +and a storm. + +54:10. Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen +iniquity and contradiction in the city. + +54:11. Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in +the midst thereof arelabour, + +54:12. And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its +streets. + +54:13. For if my enemy had reviled me, I would verily have borne with +it. And if he that hated me had spoken great things against me, I would +perhaps have hidden my self from him. + +54:14. But thou a man of one mind, my guide, and my familiar, + +54:15. Who didst take sweetmeats together with me: in the house of God +we walked with consent. + +54:16. Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into hell. +For there is wickedness in their dwellings: in the midst of them. + +Let death, etc... This, and such like imprecations which occur in the +psalms, are delivered prophetically; that is, by way of foretelling the +punishments which shall fall upon the wicked from divine justice, and +approving the righteous ways of God: but not by way of ill will, or +uncharitable curses, which the law of God disallows. + +54:17. But I have cried to God: and the Lord will save me. + +54:18. Evening and morning, and at noon I will speak and declare: and he +shall hear my voice. + +54:19. He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: +for among many they were with me. + +Among many, etc... That is, they that drew near to attack me were many +in company all combined to fight against me. + +54:20. God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is +no change with them, and they have not feared God: + +54:21. He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his +covenant, + +54:22. They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart +hath drawn near. His words are smoother tha oil, and the same are darts. + +They are divided, etc... Dispersed, scattered, and brought to nothing, +by the wrath of God; who looks with indignation on their wicked and +deceitful ways. + +54:23. Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall +not suffer the just to waver for ever. + +54:24. But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of +destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their +days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord. + +Psalms Chapter 55 + +Miserere mei, Deus. + +A prayer of David in danger and distress. + +55:1. Unto the end, for a people that is removed at a distance form the +sanctuary: for David, for an inscription of a title (or pillar) when the +Philistines held him in Geth. + +55:2. Have mercy on me, O God, for man hath trodden me under foot; all +the day long he hath afflicted me fighting against me. + +55:3. My enemies have trodden on me all the day long; for they are many +that make war against me. + +55:4. From the height of the day I shall fear: but I will trust in thee. + +The height of the day... That is, even at noonday, when the sun is the +highest, I am still in danger. + +55:5. In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: I will +not fear what flesh can do against me. + +My words... The words or promises God has made in my favour. + +55:6. All the day long they detested my words: all their thoughts were +against me unto evil. + +55:7. They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As +they have waited for my soul, + +55:8. For nothing shalt thou save them: in thy anger thou shalt break +the people in pieces. O God, + +For nothing shalt thou save them... That is, since they lie in wait to +ruin my soul, thou shalt for no consideration favour or assist them, but +execute thy justice upon them. + +55:9. I have declared to thee my life: thou hast set me tears in thy +sight, As also in thy promise. + +55:10. Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall +call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God. + +55:11. In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his +speech. In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me. + +55:12. In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will lpay, praises to +thee: + +55:13. Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from +falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the +living. + +Psalms Chapter 56 + +Miserere mei, Deus. The prophet prays in his affliction, and praises God +for his delivery. + +56:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a +title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. [1 Kings 24.] + +Destroy not... Suffer me not to be destroyed. + +56:2. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth in +thee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity pass +away. + +56:3. I will cry to God the most high; to God who hath done good to me. + +56:4. He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a +reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth, + +56:5. And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I +slept troubled. The sons ofmen, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and +their tongue a sharp sword. + +56:6. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all +the earth. + +56:7. They prepared a snare for my feet; and they bowed down my soul. +They dug a pit before my face, and they are fallen into it. + +56:8. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and +rehearse a psalm. + +56:9. Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early. + +56:10. I will give praise to thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing +a psalm to thee among the nations. + +56:11. For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth +unto the clouds. + +56:12. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above +all the earth. + +Psalms Chapter 57 + +Si vere utique. + +David reproveth the wicked, and foretelleth their punishment. + +57:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a +title. + +57:2. If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of +men. + +57:3. For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in +the earth. + +57:4. The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from +the womb: they have spoken false things. + +57:5. Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the +deaf asp that stoppeth her ears: + +57:6. Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard +that charmeth wisely. + +57:7. God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord +shall break the grinders of the lions. + +57:8. They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent +his bow till they be weakened. + +57:9. Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen +on them, and they shall not see the sun. + +57:10. Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, +as alive, in his wrath. + +Before your thorns, etc... That is, before your thorns grow up, so as to +become strong briers, they shall be overtaken and consumed by divine +justice, swallowing them up, as it were, alive in his wrath. + +57:11. The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall +wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. + +Shall wash his hands, etc... Shall applaud the justice of God, and take +occasion from the consideration of the punishment of the wicked to wash +and cleanse his hands from sin. + +57:12. And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is +indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth. + +Psalms Chapter 58 + +Eripe me. + +A prayer to be delivered from the wicked, with confidence in God's help +and protection. It agrees to Christ and his enemies the Jews. + +58:1. Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of a +title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him. [1 Kings 19.] + +58:2. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that +rise up against me. + +58:3. Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody +men. + +58:4. For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in +upon me: + +58:5. Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity +have I ren, and directed my steps. + +58:6. Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of +hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy +on all them that work iniquity. + +58:7. They shall return at everning, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: +and shall go round about the city. + +58:8. Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their +lips: for who, say they, hath heard us? + +58:9. But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the +nations to nothing. + +58:10. I will keep my strength to thee: for thou art my protector: + +58:11. My God, his mercy shall prevent me. + +58:12. God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any +time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O +Lord, my protector: + +58:13. For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let +them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall +be talked of, + +58:14. When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and +they shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, and +all the ends of the earth. + +58:15. They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: +and shall go round about the city. + +58:16. They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they +be not filled. + +58:17. But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the +morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my +trouble. + +58:18. Unto thee, O my helper, will I sing, for thou art God my defence: +my God my mercy. + +Psalms Chapter 59 + +Deus, repulisti nos. + +After many afflictions, the church of Christ shall prevail. + +59:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the inscription +of a title, to David himself, for doctrine, + +59:2. When he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal: and Joab +returned and slew of Edom, in the vale of the saltpits, twelve thousand +men. + +59:3. O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast +been angry, and hast had mercy on us. + +59:4. Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the +breaches thereof, for it has been moved. + +59:5. Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink +the wine of sorrow. + +59:6. Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may +flee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered. + +59:7. Save me with thy right hand, and hear me. + +59:8. God hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will +divide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles. + +59:9. Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine: and Ephraim is the strength +of my head. Juda is my king: + +59:10. Moab is the pot of my hope. Into Edom will I stretch out my shoe: +to me the foreigners are made subject. + +The pot of my hope... Or my watering pot. That is, a vessel for meaner +uses, by being reduced to serve me, even in the meanest employments. +Ibid. Foreigners... So the Philistines are called, who had no kindred +with the Israelites; whereas the Edomites, Moabites, etc., were +originally of the same family. + +59:11. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into +Edom? + +59:12. Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O +God, go out with our armies? + +59:13. Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man. + +59:14. Through God we shall do mightily: and he shall bring to nothing +them that afflict us. + +Psalms Chapter 60 + +Exaudi, Deus. + +A prayer for the coming of the kingdom of Christ, which shall have no +end. + +60:1. Unto the end, in hymns, for David. + +60:2. Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer. + +60:3. To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was +in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me; + +60:4. For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face +of the enemy. + +60:5. In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected +under the covert of thy wings. + +60:6. For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an +inheritance to them that fear thy name. + +60:7. Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to +generation and generation. + +60:8. He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who +shall search? + +60:9. So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may +pay my vows from day to day. + +Psalms Chapter 61 + +Nonne Deo. + +The prophet encourageth himself and all others to trust in God, and +serve him. + +61:1. Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David. + +61:2. Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation. + +61:3. For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be +moved no more. + +61:4. How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were +thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence. + +61:5. But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they +blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart. + +61:6. But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for from him is my +patience. + +61:7. For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be +moved. + +61:8. In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and +my hope is in God. + +61:9. Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts +before him. God is our helper for ever. + +61:10. But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the +balances: that by vanity they may together deceive. + +Are liars in the balances, etc... They are so vain and light, that if +they are put into the scales, they will be found to be of no weight; and +to be mere lies, deceit, and vanity. Or, They are liars in their +balances, by weighing things by false weights, and preferring the +temporal before the eternal. + +61:11. Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, +set not your heart upon them. + +61:12. God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power +belongeth to God, + +61:13. And mercy to thee, O Lord; for thou wilt render to every man +according to his works. + +Psalms Chapter 62 + +Deus Deus meus, ad te. + +The prophet aspireth after God. + +62:1. A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. + +62:2. O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my +soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! + +62:3. In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in +the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory. + +62:4. For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise. + +62:5. Thus will I bless thee all my life long: and in thy name I will +lift up my hands. + +62:6. Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: and my mouth +shall praise thee with joyful lips. + +62:7. If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in +the morning: + +62:8. Because thou hast been my helper. And I will rejoice under the +covert of thy wings: + +62:9. My soul hath stuck close to thee: thy right hand hath received me. + +62:10. But they have fought my soul in vain, they shall go into the +lower parts of the earth: + +62:11. They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall +be the portions of foxes. + +62:12. But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that +swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked +things. + +Psalms Chapter 63 + +Exaudi Deus orationem. + +A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that he will bring to +nought the machinations of persecutors. + +63:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. + +63:2. Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver +my soul from the fear of the enemy. + +63:3. Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from +the multitude of the workers of iniquity. + +63:4. For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent +their bow a bitter thing, + +63:5. To shoot in secret the undefiled. + +63:6. They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are +resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have +said: Who shall see them? + +63:7. They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their +search. Man shall come to a deep heart: + +A deep heart... That is, crafty, subtle, deep projects and designs; +which nevertheless shall not succeed; for God shall be exalted in +bringing them to nought by his wisdom and power. + +63:8. And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds: + +The arrows of children are their wounds... That is, the wounds, stripes, +or blows, they seek to inflict upon the just, are but like the weak +efforts of children's arrows, which can do no execution: and their +tongues, that is, their speeches against them come to nothing. + +63:9. And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them +were troubled; + +63:10. And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God, and +understood his doings. + +63:11. The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and +all the upright in heart shall be praised. + +Psalms Chapter 64 + +Te decet. + +God is to be praised in his church, to which all nations shall be +called. + + +64:1. To the end, a psalm of David. The canticle of Jeremias and +Ezechiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go out. + +Of the captivity... That is, the people of the captivity of Babylon. +This is not in the Hebrew, but is found in the ancient translation of +the Septuagint. + +64:2. A hymn, O God, becometh thee in Sion: and a vow shall be paid to +thee in Jerusalem. + +64:3. O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee. + +64:4. The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt +pardon our transgressions. + +64:5. Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall +dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy +house; holy is thy temple, + +64:6. Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope +of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off. + +64:7. Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded +with power: + +64:8. Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The +Gentiles shall be troubled, + +64:9. And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at +thy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the +evening to be joyful. + +64:10. Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; +thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, +thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation. + +64:11. Fill up plentifully the streams thereof, multiply its fruits; it +shall spring up and rejoice in its showers. + +64:12. Thou shalt bless the crown of the year of thy goodness: and thy +fields shall be filled with plenty. + +64:13. The beautiful places of the wilderness shall grow fat: and the +hills shall be girded about with joy, + +64:14. The rams of the flock are clothed, and the vales shall abound +with corn: they shall shout, yea they shall sing a hymn. + +Psalms Chapter 65 + +Jubilate Deo. + +An invitation to praise God. + +65:1. Unto the end, a canticle of a psalm of the resurrection. Shout +with joy to God, all the earth, + +65:2. Sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to his praise. + +65:3. Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude +of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee. + +65:4. Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee: let it sing a +psalm to thy name. + +65:5. Come and see the works of God; who is terrible in his counsels +over the sons of men. + +65:6. Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on +foot: there shall we rejoice in him. + +65:7. Who by his power ruleth for ever: his eyes behold the nations; let +not them that provoke him be exalted in themselves. + +65:8. O bless our God, ye Gentiles: and make the voice of his praise to +be heard. + +65:9. Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not suffered my feet to be +moved: + +65:10. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as +silver is tried. + +65:11. Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on +our back: + +65:12. Thou hast set men over our heads. We have passed through fire and +water, and thou hast brought us out into a refreshment. + +65:13. I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my +vows, + +65:14. Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was +in trouble. + +65:15. I will offer up to thee holocausts full of marrow, with burnt +offerings of rams: I will offer to thee bullocks with goats. + +65:16. Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what +great things he hath done for my soul. + +65:17. I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue. + +65:18. If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear +me. + +65:19. Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my +supplication. + +65:20. Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy +from me. + +Psalms Chapter 66 + +Deus misereatur. + +A prayer for the propagation of the church. + +66:1. Unto the end, in hymns, a psalm of a canticle for David. + +66:2. May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may he cause the light of +his countenance to shine upon us, and may he have mercy on us. + +66:3. That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all nations. + +66:4. Let people confess to thee, O God: let all people give praise to +thee. + +66:5. Let the nations be glad and rejoice: for thou judgest the people +with justice, and directest the nations upon earth. + +66:6. Let the people, O God, confess to thee: let all the people give +praise to thee: + +66:7. The earth hath yielded her fruit. May God, our God bless us, + +66:8. May God bless us: and all the ends of the earth fear him. + +Psalms Chapter 67 + +Exurgat Deus. + +The glorious establishment of the church of the New Testament, +prefigured by the benefits bestowed on the people of Israel. + +67:1. Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself. + +67:2. Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that +hate him flee from before his face. + +67:3. As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before +the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. + +67:4. And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted +with gladness. + +67:5. Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who +ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him: +but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence, + +Who ascendeth upon the west... Super occasum. St. Gregory understands it +of Christ, who after his going down, like the sun, in the west, by his +passion and death, ascended more glorious, and carried all before him. +St. Jerome renders it, who ascendeth, or cometh up, through the deserts. + +67:6. Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his +holy place: + +67:7. God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth +out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, +that dwell in sepulchres. + +Of one manner... That is, agreeing in faith, unanimous in love, and +following the same manner of discipline. It is verified in the servants +of God, living together in his house, which is the church. 1 Tim. 3.15. +Ibid. Them that were bound, etc... The power and mercy of God appears in +his bringing out of their captivity those that were strongly bound in +their sins: and in restoring to his grace those whose behaviour had been +most provoking; and who by their evil habits were not only dead, but +buried in their sepulchres. + +67:8. O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when +thou didst pass through the desert: + +67:9. The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of +the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel. + +67:10. Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and +it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect. + +A free rain... the manna, which rained plentifully from heaven, in +favour of God's inheritance, that is, of his people Israel: which was +weakened indeed under a variety of afflictions, but was made perfect by +God; that is, was still supported by divine providence, and brought on +to the promised land. It agrees particularly to the church of Christ his +true inheritance, which is plentifully watered with the free rain of +heavenly grace; and through many infirmities, that is, crosses and +tribulations, is made perfect, and fitted for eternal glory. + +67:11. In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast +provided for the poor. + +In it, etc... That is, in this church, which is thy fold and thy +inheritance, shall thy animals, thy sheep, dwell: where thou hast +plentifully provided for them. + +67:12. The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings +with great power. + +To them that preach good tidings... Evangelizantibus. That is, to the +preachers of the gospel; who receiving the word from the Lord, shall +with great power and efficacy preach throughout the world the glad +tidings of a Saviour, and of eternal salvation through him. + +67:13. The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the +beauty of the house shall divide spoils. + +The king of powers... That is, the mighty King, the Lord of hosts, is of +the beloved, of the beloved; that is, is on the side of Christ, his most +beloved son: and his beautiful house, viz., the church, in which God +dwells forever, shall by her spiritual conquests divide the spoils of +many nations. The Hebrew (as it now stands pointed) is thus rendered, +The kings of armies have fled, they have fled, and she that dwells at +home (or the beauty of the house) shall divide the spoils. + +67:14. If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings +of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the +paleness of gold. + +If you sleep among the midst of lots (intermedios cleros, etc.)... Viz., +in such dangers and persecutions, as if your enemies were casting lots +for your goods and persons: or in the midst of the lots, (intermedios +terminos, as St. Jerome renders it,) that is, upon the very bounds or +borders of the dominions of your enemies: you shall be secure +nevertheless under the divine protection; and shall be enabled to fly +away, like a dove, with glittering wings and feathers shining like the +palest and most precious gold; that is, with great increase of virtue, +and glowing with the fervour of charity. + +67:15. When he that is in heaven appointeth kings over her, they shall +be whited with snow in Selmon. + +Kings over her... That is, pastors and rulers over his church, viz., the +apostles and their successors. Then by their ministry shall men be made +whiter than the snow which lies on the top of the high mountain Selmon. + +67:16. The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat +mountain. + +The mountain of God... The church, which, Isa. 2.2, is called The +mountain of the house of the Lord upon the top of mountains. It is here +called a fat and a curdled mountain; that is to say, most fruitful, and +enriched by the spiritual gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost. + +67:17. Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is +well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end. + +Why suspect, ye curdled mountains?... Why do you suppose or imagine +there may be any other such curdled mountains? You are mistaken: the +mountain thus favoured by God is but one; and this same he has chosen +for his dwelling for ever. + +67:18. The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of +them that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place. + +The chariot of God... Descending to give his law on mount Sina: as also +of Jesus Christ his Son, ascending into heaven, to send from thence the +Holy Ghost, to publish his new law, is attended with ten thousands, that +is, with an innumerable multitude of joyful angels. + +67:19. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou +hast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the +dwelling of the Lord God. + +Led captivity captive... Carrying away with thee to heaven those who +before had been the captives of Satan; and receiving from God the Father +gifts to be distributed to men; even to those who were before +unbelievers. + +67:20. Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will +make our journey prosperous to us. + +67:21. Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are +the issues from death. + +The issues from death... The Lord alone is master of the issues, by +which we may escape from death. + +67:22. But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of +them that walk on in their sins. + +67:23. The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into +the depth of the sea: + +I will turn them from Basan, etc... I will cast out my enemies from +their rich possessions, signified by Basan, a fruitful country; and I +will drive them into the depth of the sea: and make such a slaughter of +them, that the feet of my servants may be dyed in their blood, etc. + +67:24. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the +tongue of thy dogs be red with the same. + +67:25. They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my +king who is in his sanctuary. + +Thy goings... Thy ways, thy proceedings, by which thou didst formerly +take possession of the promised land in favour of thy people; and shalt +afterwards of the whole world, which thou shalt subdue to thy Son. + +67:26. Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young +damsels playing on timbrels. + +Princes... The apostles, the first converters of nations; attended by +numbers of perfect souls, singing the divine praises, and virgins +consecrated to God. + +67:27. In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from the fountains of +Israel. + +From the fountains of Israel... From whom both Christ and his apostles +sprung. By Benjamin, the holy fathers on this place understand St. Paul, +who was of that tribe, named here a youth, because he was the last +called to the apostleship. By the princes of Juda, Zabulon, and +Nephthali, we may understand the other apostles, who were of the tribe +of Juda; or of the tribes of Zabulon, and Nephthali, where our Lord +began to preach, Matt. 4.13, etc. + +67:28. There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of mind. The princes of +Juda are their leaders: the princes of Zabulon, the princes of +Nephthali. + +67:29. Command thy strength, O God confirm, O God, what thou hast +wrought in us. + +Command thy strength.. Give orders that thy strength may be always with +us. + +67:30. From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee. + +67:31. Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls +with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with +silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars: + +Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds... or the wild beasts, which lie hid +in the reeds. That is, the devils, who hide themselves in order to +surprise their prey. Or by wild beasts, are here understood persecutors, +who, for all their attempts against the Church, are but as weak reeds, +which cannot prevail against them who are supported by the strength of +the Almighty. The same are also called the congregation of bulls (from +their rage against the Church) who assemble together all their kine, +that is, the people their subjects, to exclude if they can, from Christ +and his inheritance, his constant confessors, who are like silver tried +by fire. + +67:32. Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch +out her hands to God. + +Ambassadors shall come, etc... It is a prophecy of the conversion of the +Gentiles, and by name of the Egyptians and Ethiopians. + +67:33. Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: Sing +ye to God, + +67:34. Who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east. Behold he +will give to his voice the voice of power: + +To the east... From mount Olivet, which is on the east side of +Jerusalem.-Ibid. The voice of power... That is, he will make his voice +to be a powerful voice: by calling from death to life, such as were dead +in mortal sin: as at the last day he will by the power of his voice call +all the dead from their graves. + +67:35. Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power +is in the clouds. + +67:36. God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will +give power and strength to his people. Blessed be God. + +Psalms Chapter 68 + +Salvum me fac, Deus. + +Christ in his passion declareth the greatness of his sufferings, and the +malice of his persecutors the Jews; and foretelleth their reprobation. + +68:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. + +For them that shall be changed... A psalm for Christian converts, to +remember the passion of Christ. + +68:2. Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. + +The waters... Of afflictions and sorrows. My soul is sorrowful even unto +death. Matt. 26.38. + +68:3. I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure +standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath +overwhelmed me. + +68:4. I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes +have failed, whilst I hope in my God. + +68:5. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me +without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully +persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away. + +I pay that which I took not away... Christ in his passion made +restitution of what he had not taken away, by suffering the punishment +due to our sins, and so repairing the injury we had done to God. + +68:6. O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden +from thee: + +My foolishness and my offences... which my enemies impute to me: or the +follies and sins of men, which I have taken upon myself. + +68:7. Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the +Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, +O God of Israel. + +68:8. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my +face. + +68:9. I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of +my mother. + +68:10. For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of +them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. + +68:11. And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to +me. + +68:12. And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them. + +68:13. They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank +wine made me their song. + +68:14. But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy +good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the +truth of thy salvation. + +68:15. Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me +from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. + +68:16. Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow +me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. + +68:17. Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to +the multitude of thy tender mercies. + +68:18. And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, +hear me speedily. + +68:19. Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies. + +68:20. Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame. + +68:21. In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected +reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together +with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I +found none. + +68:22. And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me +vinegar to drink. + +68:23. Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, +and a stumblingblock. + +Let their table, etc... What here follows in the style of an +imprecation, is a prophecy of the wretched state to which the Jews +should be reduced in punishment of their wilful obstinacy. + +68:24. Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend +thou down always. + +68:25. Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger +take hold of them. + +68:26. Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to +dwell in their tabernacles. + +68:27. Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they +have added to the grief of my wounds. + +68:28. Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into +thy justice. + +68:29. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the +just let them not be written. + +68:30. But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me +up. + +68:31. I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify +him with praise. + +68:32. And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth +forth horns and hoofs. + +68:33. Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall +live. + +68:34. For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his +prisoners. + +68:35. Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every +thing that creepeth therein. + +68:36. For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. +And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance. + +Sion... The catholic church. The cities of Juda, etc., her places of +worship, which shall be established throughout the world. And there, +viz., in this church of Christ, shall his servants dwell, etc. + +68:37. And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love +his name shall dwell therein. + +Psalms Chapter 69 + +Deus in adjutorium. + +A prayer in persecution. + +69:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the +Lord saved him. + +69:2. O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me. + +69:3. Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul: + +69:4. Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame that desire evils +to me: Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that say to +me: 'Tis well, 'tis well. + +'T is well, 't is well... Euge, euge. St. Jerome renders it, vah, vah! +which is the voice of one insulting and deriding. Some understand it as +a detestation of deceitful flatterers. + +69:5. Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such +as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified. + +69:6. But I am needy and poor; O God, help me. Thou art my helper and my +deliverer: O lord, make no delay. + +Psalms Chapter 70 + +In te, Domine. + +A prayer for perseverance. + +70:1. A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and the former +captives. In thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to +confusion: + +Of the sons of Jonadab... The Rechabites, of whom see Jer. 35. By this +addition of the seventy-two interpreters, we gather that this psalm was +usually sung in the synagogue, in the person of the Rechabites, and of +those who were first carried away into captivity. + +70:2. Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, +and save me. + +70:3. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that +thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge. + +70:4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of +the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust. + +70:5. For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth. + +70:6. By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb +thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing: + +70:7. I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper. + +70:8. Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory; thy +greatness all the day long. + +70:9. Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall +fail, do not thou forsake me. + +70:10. For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my +soul have consulted together, + +70:11. Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is +none to deliver him. + +70:12. O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help. + +70:13. Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; +let them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt. + +70:14. But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise. + +70:15. My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day +long. Because I have not known learning, + +Learning... As much as to say, I build not upon human learning, but only +on the power and justice of God. + +70:16. I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be +mindful of thy justice alone. + +70:17. Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will +declare thy wonderful works. + +70:18. And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I +shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power, + +70:19. And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou +hast done: O God, who is like to thee? + +70:20. How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and +turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again +from the depths of the earth: + +70:21. Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou +hast comforted me. + +70:22. For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of +psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of +Israel. + +70:23. My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; and my +soul which thou hast redeemed. + +70:24. Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when +they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me. + +Psalms Chapter 71 + +Deus, judicium tuum. + +A prophecy of the coming of Christ, and of his kingdom: prefigured by +Solomon and his happy reign. + +71:1. A psalm on Solomon. + +71:2. Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king's son thy +justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment. + +71:3. Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills +justice. + +71:4. He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the +children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor. + +71:5. And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout +all generations. + +71:6. He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers +falling gently upon the earth. + +71:7. In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till +the moon be taken away. + +71:8. And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the +ends of the earth. + +71:9. Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall +lick the ground. + +71:10. The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the +kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts: + +71:11. And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall +serve him. + +71:12. For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that +had no helper. + +71:13. He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of +the poor. + +71:14. He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their +names shall be honourable in his sight. + +71:15. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of +Arabia, for him they shall always adore: they shall bless him all the +day. + +71:16. And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of +mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of +the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth. + +A firmament on the earth, etc... This may be understood of the church of +Christ, ever firm and visible: and of the flourishing condition of its +congregation. + +71:17. Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before +the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all +nations shall magnify him. + +71:18. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful +things. + +71:19. And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole +earth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it. + +71:20. The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. + +Are ended... By this it appears that this psalm, though placed here, was +in order of time the last of those which David composed. + +Psalms Chapter 72 + +Quam bonus Israel Deus. + +The temptation of the weak, upon seeing the prosperity of the wicked, is +overcome by the consideration of the justice of God, who will quickly +render to every one according to his works. + +72:1. A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of +a right heart! + +72:2. But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped. + +72:3. Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the +prosperity of sinners. + +72:4. For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in +their stripes. + +72:5. They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged +like other men. + +72:6. Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their +iniquity and their wickedness. + +72:7. Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have +passed into the affection of the heart. + +Fatness... Abundance and temporal prosperity, which hath encouraged them +in their iniquity: and made them give themselves up to their irregular +affections. + +72:8. They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity +on high. + +72:9. They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath +passed through the earth. + +72:10. Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found +in them. + +Return here... or hither. The weak among the servants of God, will be +apt often to return to this thought, and will be shocked when they +consider the full days, that is, the long and prosperous life of the +wicked; and will be tempted to make the reflections against providence +which are set down in the following verses. + +72:11. And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the +most High? + +72:12. Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they +have obtained riches. + +72:13. And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my +hands among the innocent. + +72:14. And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath +been in the mornings. + +72:15. If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the +generation of thy children. + +If I said, etc... That is, if I should indulge such thoughts as these. + +72:16. I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my +sight: + +72:17. Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning +their last ends. + +72:18. But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were +lifted up thou hast cast them down. + +Thou hast put it to them... In punishment of their deceits, or for +deceiving them, thou hast brought evils upon them in their last end, +which, in their prosperity they never apprehended. + +72:19. How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to +be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity. + +72:20. As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou +shalt bring their image to nothing. + +72:21. For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed: + +72:22. And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not. + +72:23. I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee. + +72:24. Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast +conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me. + +72:25. For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon +earth? + +72:26. For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the +God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever. + +72:27. For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast +destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee. + +72:28. But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the +Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the +daughter of Sion. + +Psalms Chapter 73 + +Ut quid, Deus. + +A prayer of the church under grievous persecutions. + +73:1. Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the +end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture? + +73:2. Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the +beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: +mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt. + +73:3. Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what +things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. + +73:4. And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of +thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs, + +Their ensigns, etc... They have fixed their colours for signs and +trophies, both on the gates, and on the highest top of the temple: and +they knew not, that is, they regarded not the sanctity of the place. +This psalm manifestly foretells the time of the Machabees, and the +profanation of the temple by Antiochus. + +73:5. And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As +with axes in a wood of trees, + +73:6. They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet +they have brought it down. + +73:7. They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the +dwelling place of thy name on the earth. + +73:8. They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let +us abolish all the festival days of God from the land. + +73:9. Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will +know us no more. + +73:10. How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to +provoke thy name for ever? + +73:11. Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the +midst of thy bosom for ever? + +73:12. But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the +midst of the earth. + +73:13. Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush +the heads of the dragons in the waters. + +The sea firm... By making the waters of the Red Sea stand like firm +walls, whilst Israel passed through: and destroying the Egyptians called +here dragons from their cruelty, in the same waters, with their king: +casting up their bodies on the shore to be stripped by the Ethiopians +inhabiting in those days the coast of Arabia. + +73:14. Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to +be meat for the people of the Ethiopians. + +73:15. Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast +dried up the Ethan rivers. + +Ethan rivers... That is, rivers which run with strong streams. This was +verified in Jordan, Jos. 3, and in Arnon, Num. 21.14. + +73:16. Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the +morning light and the sun. + +73:17. Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the +spring were formed by thee. + +73:18. Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish +people hath provoked thy name. + +73:19. Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and +forget not to the end the souls of thy poor. + +73:20. Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the +earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity. + +The obscure of the earth... Mean and ignoble wretches have been filled, +that is, enriched, with houses of iniquity, that is, with our estates +and possessions, which they have unjustly acquired. + +73:21. Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and +needy shall praise thy name. + +73:22. Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with +which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day. + +73:23. Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate +thee ascendeth continually. + +Psalms Chapter 74 + +Confitebimur tibi. + +There is a just judgment to come: therefore let the wicked take care. + +74:1. Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph. + +Corrupt not... It is believed to have been the beginning of some ode or +hymn, to the tune of which this psalm was to be sung. St. Augustine and +other fathers take it to be an admonition of the spirit of God, not to +faint or fail in our hope: but to persevere with constancy in good: +because God will not fail in his due time to render to every man +according to his works. + +74:2. We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon +thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works: + +74:3. When I shall take a time, I will judge justices. + +When I shall take a time... In proper times: particularly at the last +day, when the earth shall melt away at the presence of the great Judge: +the same who originally laid the foundations of it, and as it were +established its pillars. + +74:4. The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have +established the pillars thereof. + +74:5. I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: +Lift not up the horn. + +74:6. Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God. + +74:7. For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert +hills: + +74:8. For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth +up: + +74:9. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of +mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs +thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink. + +74:10. But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob. + +74:11. And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the +just shall be exalted. + +Psalms Chapter 75 + +Notus in Judaea. + +God is known in his church: and exerts his power in protecting it. It +alludes to the slaughter of the Assyrians, in the days of king Ezechias. + +75:1. Unto the end, in praises, a psalm for Asaph: a canticle to the +Assyrians. + +75:2. In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel. + +75:3. And his place is in peace: and his abode in Sion: + +75:4. There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword, +and the battle. + +75:5. Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills. + +75:6. All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their +sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands. + +75:7. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that +mounted on horseback. + +75:8. Thou art terrible, and who shall resist thee? from that time thy +wrath. + +From that time, etc... From the time that thy wrath shall break out. + +75:9. Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth +trembled and was still, + +75:10. When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. + +75:11. For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the +remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee. + +75:12. Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round +about him bring presents. To him that is terrible, + +75:13. Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the +terrible with the kings of the earth. + +Psalms Chapter 76 + +Voce mea. + +The faithful have recourse to God in trouble of mind, with confidence in +his mercy and power. + +76:1. Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph. + +76:2. I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he +gave ear to me. + +76:3. In the days of my trouble I sought God, with my hands lifted up to +him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be +comforted: + +76:4. I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my +spirit swooned away. + +76:5. My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not. + +76:6. I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal +years. + +76:7. And I meditated in the night with my own heart: and I was +exercised and I swept my spirit. + +76:8. Will God then cast off for ever? or will he never be more +favourable again? + +76:9. Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, from generation to +generation? + +76:10. Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up +his mercies? + +76:11. And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right +hand of the most High. + +76:12. I remembered the works of the Lord: for I will be mindful of thy +wonders from the beginning. + +76:13. And I will meditate on all thy works: and will be employed in thy +inventions. + +76:14. Thy way, O God, is in the holy place: who is the great God like +our God? + +76:15. Thou art the God that dost wonders. Thou hast made thy power +known among the nations: + +76:16. With thy arm thou hast redeemed thy people the children of Jacob +and of Joseph. + +76:17. The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: and they were +afraid, and the depths were troubled. + +76:18. Great was the noise of the waters: the clouds sent out a sound. +For thy arrows pass: + +76:19. The voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened +the world: the earth shook and trembled. + +76:20. Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy +footsteps shall not be known. + +76:21. Thou hast conducted thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses +and Aaron. + +Psalms Chapter 77 + +Attendite. + +God's great benefits to the people of Israel, notwithstanding their +ingratitude. + +77:1. Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline +your ears to the words of my mouth. + +77:2. I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from +the beginning. + +Propositions... Deep and mysterious sayings. By this it appears that the +historical facts of ancient times, commemorated in this psalm, were deep +and mysterious: as being figures of great truths appertaining to the +time of the New Testament. + +77:3. How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have +told us. + +77:4. They have not been hidden from their children, in another +generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his +wonders which he hath done. + +77:5. And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How +great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same +known to their children: + +77:6. That another generation might know them. The children that should +be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children. + +77:7. That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works +of God: and may seek his commandments. + +77:8. That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and +exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: +and whose spirit was not faithful to God. + +77:9. The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have +turned back in the day of battle. + +77:10. They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not +walk. + +77:11. And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn +them. + +77:12. Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the +land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. + +77:13. He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the +waters to stand as in a vessel. + +77:14. And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with +a light of fire. + +77:15. He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as +out of the great deep. + +77:16. He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down +as rivers. + +77:17. And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most +High to wrath in the place without water. + +77:18. And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their +desires. + +77:19. And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in +the wilderness? + +77:20. Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the +streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his +people? + +77:21. Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled +against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel. + +77:22. Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his +salvation. + +77:23. And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the +doors of heaven. + +77:24. And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them +the bread of heaven. + +77:25. Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in +abundance. + +77:26. He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought +in the southwest wind. + +77:27. And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like +as the sand of the sea. + +77:28. And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their +pavilions. + +77:29. So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them +their desire: + +77:30. they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their +meat was in their mouth: + +77:31. And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones +amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel. + +77:32. In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for +his wondrous works. + +77:33. And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste. + +77:34. When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and +came to him early in the morning. + +77:35. And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high +God their redeemer. + +77:36. And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they +lied unto him: + +77:37. But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted +faithful in his covenant. + +77:38. But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not +destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not +kindle all his wrath. + +77:39. And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and +returneth not. + +77:40. How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to +wrath in the place without water? + +77:41. And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of +Israel. + +77:42. They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them +from the hand of him that afflicted them: + +77:43. How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field +of Tanis. + +77:44. And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that +they might not drink. + +77:45. He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them: +and frogs which destroyed them. + +77:46. And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to +the locust. + +77:47. And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry +trees with hoarfrost. + +77:48. And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the +fire. + +77:49. And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation +and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels. + +77:50. He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls +from death, and their cattle he shut up in death. + +77:51. And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the +firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham. + +77:52. And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the +wilderness like a flock. + +77:53. And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea +overwhelmed their enemies. + +77:54. And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the +mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the +Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of +distribution. + +77:55. And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles. + +77:56. Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept +not his testimonies. + +77:57. And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their +fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow. + +77:58. They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to +jealousy with their graven things. + +77:59. God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly +as it were to nothing. + +77:60. And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he +dwelt among men. + +77:61. And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty +into the hands of the enemy. + +77:62. And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his +inheritance. + +77:63. Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not +lamented. + +77:64. Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn. + +77:65. And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty +man that hath been surfeited with wine. + +77:66. And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an +everlasting reproach. + +77:67. And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe +of Ephraim: + +77:68. But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved. + +77:69. And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he +founded for ever. + +As of unicorns... That is, firm and strong like the horn of the unicorn. +This is one of the chiefest of the propositions of this psalm, +foreshewing the firm establishment of the one, true, and everlasting +sanctuary of God, in his church. + +77:70. And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of +sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young, + +77:71. To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance. + +77:72. And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them +by the skilfulness of his hands. + +Psalms Chapter 78 + +Deus, venerunt gentes. + +The church in time of persecution prayeth for relief. It seems to belong +to the time of the Machabees. + +78:1. A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy +inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem +as a place to keep fruit. + +78:2. They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the +fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth. + +78:3. They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem +and there was none to bury them. + +78:4. We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision +to them that are round about us. + +78:5. How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be +kindled like a fire? + +78:6. Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and +upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. + +78:7. Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place. + +78:8. Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily +prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor. + +78:9. Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O +Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake: + +78:10. Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And +let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the +revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed: + +78:11. Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According +to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them +that have been put to death. + +78:12. And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the +reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. + +78:13. But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks +to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and +generation. + +Psalms Chapter 79 + +Qui regis Israel. + +A prayer for the church in tribulation, commemorating God's former +favours. + +79:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a testimony for +Asaph, a psalm. + +79:2. Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like +a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth + +79:3. Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and +come to save us. + +79:4. Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved. + +79:5. O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the +prayer of thy servant? + +79:6. How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us +for our drink tears in measure? + +79:7. Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our +enemies have scoffed at us. + +79:8. O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be +saved. + +79:9. Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the +Gentiles and planted it. + +79:10. Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst +the roots thereof, and it filled the land. + +79:11. The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the +cedars of God. + +79:12. It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto +the river. + +79:13. Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who +pass by the way do pluck it? + +79:14. The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild +beast hath devoured it. + +79:15. Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and +visit this vineyard: + +79:16. And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon +the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself. + +79:17. Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy +countenance. + +Things set on fire, etc... So this vineyard of thine, almost consumed +already, must perish, if thou continue thy rebukes. + +79:18. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son +of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself. + +The man of thy right hand... Christ. + +79:19. And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will +call upon thy name. + +79:20. O Lord God of hosts, convert us and shew thy face, and we shall +be saved. + +Psalms Chapter 80 + +Exultate Deo. + +An invitation to a solemn praising of God. + +80:1. Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. + +For the winepresses, etc... Torcularibus. It either signifies a musical +instrument, or that this psalm was to be sung at the feast of the +tabernacles after the gathering in of the vintage. + +80:2. Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob. + +80:3. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery +with the harp. + +80:4. Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your +solemnity. + +80:5. For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of +Jacob. + +80:6. He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the +land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not. + +80:7. He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in +baskets. + +80:8. Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard +thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of +contradiction. + +In the secret place of tempest... Heb., Of thunder. When thou soughtest +to hide thyself from the tempest: or, when I came down to mount Sina, +hidden from thy eyes in a storm of thunder. + +80:9. Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou +wilt hearken to me, 10 there shall be no new god in thee: neither +shalt thou adore a strange god. + +80:11. For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of +Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. + +80:12. But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. + +80:13. So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they +shall walk in their own inventions. + +80:14. If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways: + +80:15. I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on +them that troubled them. + +80:16. The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be +for ever. + +Their time shall be forever... Impenitent sinners shall suffer for ever. + +80:17. And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey +out of the rock. + +Psalms Chapter 81 + +Deus stetit. + +An exhortation to judges and men in power. + +81:1. A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and +being in the midst of them he judgeth gods. + +81:2. How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the +wicked? + +81:3. Judge for the needy and fatherless: do justice to the humble and +the poor. + +81:4. Rescue the poor; and deliver the needy out of the hand of the +sinner. + +81:5. They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all +the foundations of the earth shall be moved. + +81:6. I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most +High. + +81:7. But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the +princes. + +81:8. Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among +all the nations. + +Psalms Chapter 82 + +Deus, quis similis. + +A prayer against the enemies of God's church. + +82:1. A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. + +82:2. O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be +thou still, O God. + +82:3. For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee +have lifted up the head. + +82:4. They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have +consulted against thy saints. + +82:5. They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not +a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. + +82:6. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a +covenant together against thee, + +82:7. The tabernacle of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and +the Agarens, + +82:8. Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants +of Tyre. + +82:9. Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to +the aid of the sons of Lot. + +82:10. Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at +the brook of Cisson. + +82:11. Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth. + +82:12. Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. +All their princes, + +82:13. Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an +inheritance. + +82:14. O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind. + +82:15. As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains: + +82:16. So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble +them in thy wrath. + +82:17. Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O +Lord. + +82:18. Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them +be confounded and perish. + +82:19. And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the +most High over all the earth. + +Psalms Chapter 83 + +Quam dilecta. + +The soul aspireth after heaven; rejoicing in the mean time, in being in +the communion of God's church upon earth. + +83:1. Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. + +83:2. How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! + +83:3. my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart +and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God. + +83:4. For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest +for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of +hosts, my king and my God. + +83:5. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall +praise thee for ever and ever. + +83:6. Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath +disposed to ascend by steps, + +In his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, etc... Ascensiones in +corde suo disposuit. As by steps men ascended to the temple of God +situated on a hill; so the good Christian ascends towards the eternal +temple by certain steps of virtue disposed or ordered within the heart: +and this whilst he lives as yet in the body, in this vale of tears, the +place which man hath set: that is, which he hath brought himself to: +being cast out of paradise for his sin. + +83:7. In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set. + +83:8. For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue +to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion. + +83:9. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. + +83:10. Behold, O God our protector: and look on the face of thy Christ. + +83:11. For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have +chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in +the tabernacles of sinners. + +83:12. For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and +glory. + +83:13. He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O +Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. + +Psalms Chapter 84 + +Benedixisti, Domine. + +The coming of Christ, to bring peace and salvation to man. + +84:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, a psalm. + +84:2. Lord, thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the +captivity of Jacob. + +84:3. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered +all their sins. + +84:4. Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou hast turned away from the +wrath of thy indignation. + +84:5. Convert us, O God our saviour: and turn off thy anger from us. + +84:6. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever: or wilt thou extend thy wrath +from generation to generation? + +84:7. Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall +rejoice in thee. + +84:8. Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy; and grant us thy salvation. + +84:9. I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me: for he will speak +peace unto his people: And unto his saints: and unto them that are +converted to the heart. + +84:10. Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him: that glory +may dwell in our land. + +84:11. Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have +kissed. + +84:12. Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down +from heaven. + +84:13. For the Lord will give goodness: and our earth shall yield her +fruit. + +84:14. Justice shall walk before him: and shall set his steps in the +way. + +Psalms Chapter 85 + +Inclina, Domine. + +A prayer for God's grace to assist us to the end. + +85:1. A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: +for I am needy and poor. + +85:2. Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that +trusteth in thee. + +I am holy... I am by my office and profession dedicated to thy service. + +85:3. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day. + +85:4. Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have +lifted up my soul. + +85:5. For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to +all that call upon thee. + +85:6. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my +petition. + +85:7. I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou +hast heard me. + +85:8. There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is +none according to thy works. + +85:9. All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O +Lord: and they shall glorify thy name. + +85:10. For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone. + +85:11. Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let +my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name. + +85:12. I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I +will glorify thy name for ever: + +85:13. For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my +soul out of the lower hell. + +85:14. O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of +the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their +eyes. + +85:15. And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, +and of much mercy, and true. + +85:16. O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy +servant, and save the son of thy handmaid. + +85:17. Shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be +confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me. + +Psalms Chapter 86 + +Fundamenta ejus. + +The glory of the church of Christ. + +86:1. For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations +thereof are the holy mountains: + +The holy mountains... The apostles and prophets. Eph. 2.20. + +86:2. The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of +Jacob. + +86:3. Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God. + +86:4. I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the +foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were +there. + +Rahab... Egypt, etc. To this Sion, which is the church of God, many +shall resort from all nations. + +86:5. Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the +Highest himself hath founded her. + +Shall not Sion say, etc... The meaning is, that Sion, viz., the church, +shall not only be able to commemorate this or that particular person of +renown born in her, but also to glory in great multitudes of people and +princes of her communion; who have been foretold in the writings of the +prophets, and registered in the writings of the apostles. + +86:6. The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of +them that have been in her. + +86:7. The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing. + +Psalms Chapter 87 + +Domine, Deus salutis. + +A prayer of one under grievous affliction: it agrees to Christ in his +passion, and alludes to his death and burial. + +87:1. A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for +Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. + +Maheleth... A musical instrument, or chorus of musicians, to answer one +another.-Ibid. Understanding... Or a psalm of instruction, composed by +Eman the Ezrahite, or by David, in his name. + +87:2. O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in +the night before thee. + +87:3. Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition. + +87:4. For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to +hell. + +87:5. I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a +man without help, + +87:6. Free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, +whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. + +87:7. They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the +shadow of death. + +87:8. Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought +in upon me. + +87:9. Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me +an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth: + +87:10. My eyes languished through poverty. All the day I cried to thee, +O Lord: I stretched out my hands to thee. + +87:11. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to +life, and give praise to thee? + +87:12. Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth +in destruction? + +87:13. Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the +land of forgetfulness? + +87:14. But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer +shall prevent thee. + +87:15. Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy +face from me? + +87:16. I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have +been humbled and troubled. + +87:17. Thy wrath hath come upon me: and thy terrors have troubled me. + +87:18. They have come round about me like water all the day: they have +compassed me about together. + +87:19. Friend and neighbour thou hast put far from me: and my +acquaintance, because of misery. + +Psalms Chapter 88 + +Misericordias Domini. + +The perpetuity of the church of Christ, in consequence of the promise of +God: which, notwithstanding, God permits her to suffer sometimes most +grievous afflictions. + +88:1. Of understanding, for Ethan the Ezrahite. + +88:2. The mercies of the Lord I will sing for ever. I will shew forth +thy truth with my mouth to generation and generation. + +88:3. For thou hast said: Mercy shall be built up for ever in the +heavens: thy truth shall be prepared in them. + +88:4. I have made a covenant with my elect: I have sworn to David my +servant: + +88:5. Thy seed will I settle for ever. And I will build up thy throne +unto generation and generation. + +88:6. The heavens shall confess thy wonders, O Lord: and thy truth in +the church of the saints. + +88:7. For who in the clouds can be compared to the Lord: or who among +the sons of God shall be like to God? + +88:8. God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and +terrible above all them that are about him. + +88:9. O Lord God of hosts, who is like to thee? thou art mighty, O Lord, +and thy truth is round about thee. + +88:10. Thou rulest the power of the sea: and appeasest the motion of the +waves thereof. + +88:11. Thou hast humbled the proud one, as one that is slain: with the +arm of thy strength thou hast scattered thy enemies. + +88:12. Thine are the heavens, and thine is the earth: the world and the +fulness thereof thou hast founded: + +88:13. The north and the sea thou hast created. Thabor and Hermon shall +rejoice in thy name: + +88:14. Thy arm is with might. Let thy hand be strengthened, and thy +right hand exalted: + +88:15. Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and +truth shall go before thy face: + +88:16. Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O +Lord, in the light of thy countenance: + +88:17. And in thy name they shall rejoice all the day, and in thy +justice they shall be exalted. + +88:18. For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy good +pleasure shall our horn be exalted. + +88:19. For our protection is of the Lord, and of our king the holy one +of Israel. + +88:20. Then thou spokest in a vision to thy saints, and saidst: I have +laid help upon one that is mighty, and have exalted one chosen out of my +people. + +88:21. I have found David my servant: with my holy oil I have anointed +him. + +88:22. For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him. + +88:23. The enemy shall have no advantage over him: nor the son of +iniquity have power to hurt him. + +88:24. And I will cut down his enemies before his face; and them that +hate him I will put to flight. + +88:25. And my truth and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall +his horn be exalted. + +88:26. And I will set his hand in the sea; and his right hand in the +rivers. + +88:27. He shall cry out to me: Thou art my father: my God, and the +support of my salvation. + +88:28. And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the +earth. + +88:29. I will keep my mercy for him for ever: and my covenant faithful +to him. + +88:30. And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne +as the days of heaven. + +88:31. And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments: + +88:32. If they profane my justices: and keep not my commandments: + +88:33. I will visit their iniquities with a rod and their sins with +stripes. + +88:34. But my mercy I will not take away from him: nor will I suffer my +truth to fail. + +88:35. Neither will I profane my covenant: and the words that proceed +from my mouth I will not make void. + +88:36. Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: + +88:37. His seed shall endure for ever. + +88:38. And his throne as the sun before me: and as the moon perfect for +ever, and a faithful witness in heaven. + +88:39. But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my +anointed. + +88:40. Thou hast overthrown the covenant of thy servant: thou hast +profaned his sanctuary on the earth. + +Overthrown the covenant, etc... All this seems to relate to the time of +the captivity of Babylon, in which, for the sins of the people and their +princes, God seemed to have set aside for a while the covenant he made +with David. + +88:41. Thou hast broken down all his hedges: thou hast made his strength +fear. + +88:42. All that pass by the way have robbed him: he is become a reproach +to his neighbours. + +88:43. Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou +hast made all his enemies to rejoice. + +88:44. Thou hast turned away the help of his sword; and hast not +assisted him in battle. + +88:45. Thou hast made his purification to cease: and thou hast cast his +throne down to the ground. + +88:46. Thou hast shortened the days of his time: thou hast covered him +with confusion. + +88:47. How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger +burn like fire? + +88:48. Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the +children of men in vain? + +88:49. Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall +deliver his soul from the hand of hell? + +88:50. Lord, where are thy ancient mercies, according to what thou didst +swear to David in thy truth? + +88:51. Be mindful, O Lord, of the reproach of thy servants (which I have +held in my bosom) of many nations: + +88:52. Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they +have reproached the change of thy anointed. + +88:53. Blessed be the Lord for evermore. So be it. So be it. + +Psalms Chapter 89 + +Domine, refugium. + +A prayer for the mercy of God: recounting the shortness and miseries of +the days of man. + +89:1. A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our refuge +from generation to generation. + +89:2. Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was +formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God. + +89:3. Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be +converted, O ye sons of men. + +Turn not man away, etc... Suffer him not quite to perish from thee, +since thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee. + +89:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. +And as a watch in the night, + +89:5. Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. + +89:6. In the morning man shall grow up like grass; in the morning he +shall flourish and pass away: in the evening he shall fall, grow dry, +and wither. + +89:7. For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy +indignation. + +89:8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the +light of thy countenance. + +89:9. For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. +Our years shall be considered as a spider: + +As a spider... As frail and weak as a spider's web; and miserable +withal, whilst like a spider we spend our bowels in weaving webs to +catch flies. + +89:10. The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But +if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is +labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be +corrected. + +Mildness is come upon us, etc... God's mildness corrects us; inasmuch as +he deals kindly with us, in shortening the days of this miserable life; +and so weaning our affections from all its transitory enjoyments, and +teaching us true wisdom. + +89:11. Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear + +89:12. Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men +learned in heart, in wisdom. + +89:13. Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy +servants. + +89:14. We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have +rejoiced, and are delighted all our days. + +89:15. We have rejoiced for the days in which thou hast humbled us: for +the years in which we have seen evils. + +89:16. Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their +children. + +89:17. And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct +thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou +direct. + +Psalms Chapter 90 + +Qui habitat. + +The just is secure under the protection of God. + +90:1. The praise of a canticle for David. He that dwelleth in the aid of +the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob. + +90:2. He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my +God, in him will I trust. + +90:3. For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from +the sharp word. + +90:4. He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings +thou shalt trust. + +90:5. His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be +afraid of the terror of the night. + +90:6. Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh +about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil. + +90:7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right +hand: but it shall not come nigh thee. + +90:8. But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of +the wicked. + +90:9. Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made the most High +thy refuge. + +90:10. There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near +thy dwelling. + +90:11. For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in +all thy ways. + +90:12. In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot +against a stone. + +90:13. Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt +trample under foot the lion and the dragon. + +90:14. Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him +because he hath known my name. + +90:15. He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in +tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him. + +90:16. I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my +salvation. + +Psalms Chapter 91 + +Bonum est confiteri. + +God is to be praised for his wondrous works. + +91:1. A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day. + +91:2. It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O +most High. + +91:3. To shew forth thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth in the +night: 91:4. Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with +a canticle upon the harp. + +91:5. For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in +the works of thy hands I shall rejoice. + +91:6. O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep. + +91:7. The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand +these things. + +91:8. When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of +iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever: + +91:9. But thou, O Lord, art most high for evermore. + +91:10. For behold thy enemies, O lord, for behold thy enemies shall +perish: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. + +91:11. But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old +age in plentiful mercy. + +91:12. My eye also hath looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall +hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me. + +91:13. The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like +the cedar of Libanus. + +91:14. They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in +the courts of the house of our God. + +91:15. They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be +well treated, + +91:16. That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there +is no iniquity in him. + +Psalms Chapter 92 + +Dominus regnavit. + +The glory and stability of the kingdom; that is, of the church of +Christ. + +Praise in the way of a canticle, for David himself, on the day before +the sabbath, when the earth was founded. + +92:1. The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is +clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established +the world which shall not be moved. + +92:2. My throne is prepared from of old: thou art from everlasting. + +92:3. The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their +voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, + +92:4. With the noise of many waters. Wonderful are the surges of the +sea: wonderful is the Lord on high. + +92:5. Thy testimonies are become exceedingly credible: holiness becometh +thy house, O Lord, unto length of days. + +Psalms Chapter 93 + +Deus ultionum. + +God shall judge and punish the oppressors of his people. + +A psalm for David himself on the fourth day of the week. + +93:1. The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge +hath acted freely. + +93:2. Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to +the proud. + +93:3. How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory? + +93:4. Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work +injustice? + +93:5. Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted +thy inheritance. + +93:6. They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered +the fatherless. + +93:7. And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God +of Jacob understand. + +93:8. Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise +at last. + +93:9. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the +eye, doth he not consider? + +93:10. He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth +man knowledge? + +93:11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain. + +93:12. Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt +teach him out of thy law. + +93:13. That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be +dug for the wicked. + +Rest from the evil days... That thou mayst mitigate the sorrows, to +which he is exposed, during the short and evil days of his mortality. + +93:14. For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he +forsake his own inheritance. + +93:15. Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it +are all the upright in heart. + +Until justice be turned into judgment, etc... By being put in execution; +which will be agreeable to all the upright in heart. + +93:16. Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall +stand with me against the workers of iniquity? + +93:17. Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in +hell. + +93:18. If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me. + +93:19. According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy +comforts have given joy to my soul. + +93:20. Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in +commandment? + +Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, etc... That is, wilt thou, O +God, who art always just, admit of the seat of iniquity: that is, of +injustice, or unjust judges, to have any partnership with thee? Thou who +framest, or makest, labour in commandment, that is, thou who obligest us +to labour with all diligence to keep thy commandments. + +93:21. They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn +innocent blood. + +93:22. But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope. + +93:23. And he will render them their iniquity: and in their malice he +will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them. + +Psalms Chapter 94 + +Venite exultemus. + +An invitation to adore and serve God, and to hear his voice. + +Praise of a canticle for David himself. + +94:1. Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God +our saviour. + +94:2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a +joyful noise to him with psalms. + +94:3. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. + +94:4. For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of +the mountains are his. + +94:5. For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry +land. + +94:6. Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that +made us. + +94:7. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture +and the sheep of his hand. + +94:8. To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: + +94:9. As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the +wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my +works. + +94:10. Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: +These always err in heart. + +94:11. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that +they shall not enter into my rest. + +Psalms Chapter 95 + +Cantate Domino. + +An exhortation to praise God for the coming of Christ and his kingdom. + +95:1. A canticle for David himself, when the house was built after the +captivity. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the +earth. + +When the house was built, etc... Alluding to that time, and then ordered +to be sung: but principally relating to the building of the church of +Christ, after our redemption from the captivity of Satan. + +95:2. Sing ye to the Lord and bless his name: shew forth his salvation +from day to day. + +95:3. Declare his glory among the Gentiles: his wonders among all +people. + +95:4. For the Lord is great, and exceedingly to be praised: he is to be +feared above all gods. + +95:5. For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the +heavens. + +95:6. Praise and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty in his +sanctuary. + +95:7. Bring ye to the Lord, O ye kindreds of the Gentiles, bring ye to +the Lord glory and honour: + +95:8. Bring to the Lord glory unto his name. Bring up sacrifices, and +come into his courts: + +95:9. Adore ye the Lord in his holy court. Let all the earth be moved at +his presence. + +95:10. Say ye among the Gentiles, the Lord hath reigned. For he hath +corrected the world, which shall not be moved: he will judge the people +with justice. + +95:11. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea +be moved, and the fulness thereof: + +95:12. The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then +shall all the trees of the woods rejoice + +95:13. before the face of the Lord, because he cometh: because he cometh +to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with justice, and the +people with his truth. + +Psalms Chapter 96 + +Dominus regnavit. + +All are invited to rejoice at the glorious coming and reign of Christ. + +96:1. For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The +Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad. + +96:2. Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are +the establishment of his throne. + +Clouds and darkness... The coming of Christ in the clouds with great +terror and majesty to judge the world, is here prophesied. + +96:3. A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round +about. + +96:4. His lightnings have shone forth to the world: the earth saw and +trembled. + +96:5. The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the +presence of the Lord of all the earth. + +96:6. The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory. + +96:7. Let them be all confounded that adore graven things, and that +glory in their idols. Adore him, all you his angels: + +96:8. Sion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Juda rejoiced, +because of thy judgments, O Lord. + +96:9. For thou art the most high Lord over all the earth: thou art +exalted exceedingly above all gods. + +96:10. You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls +of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner. + +96:11. Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart. + +96:12. Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance +of his holiness. + +Psalms Chapter 97 + +Cantate Domino. + +All are again invited to praise the Lord, for the victories of Christ. + +97:1. A psalm for David himself. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: +because he hath done wonderful things. His right hand hath wrought for +him salvation, and his arm is holy. + +97:2. The Lord hath made known his salvation: he hath revealed his +justice in the sight of the Gentiles. + +97:3. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of +Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. + +97:4. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth; make melody, rejoice and +sing. + +97:5. Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the +voice of a psalm: + +97:6. With long trumpets, and sound of cornet. Make a joyful noise +before the Lord our king: + +97:7. Let the sea be moved and the fullness thereof: the world and they +that dwell therein. + +97:8. The rivers shall clap their hands, the mountains shall rejoice +together + +97:9. At the presence of the Lord: because he cometh to judge the earth. +He shall judge the world with justice, and the people with equity. + +Psalms Chapter 98 + +Dominus regnavit. + +The reign of the Lord in Sion: that is, of Christ in his church. + +98:1. A psalm for David himself. The Lord hath reigned, let the people +be angry: he that sitteth on the cherubims: let the earth be moved. + +Let the people be angry... Though many enemies rage, and the whole earth +be stirred up to oppose the reign of Christ, he shall still prevail. + +98:2. The lord is great in Sion, and high above all people. + +98:3. Let them give praise to thy great name: for it is terrible and +holy: + +98:4. And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared +directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob. + +Loveth judgment... Requireth discretion.-Ibid. Directions... Most right +and just laws to direct men. + +98:5. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore his footstool, for it is +holy. + +Adore his footstool... The ark of the covenant was called, in the Old +Testament, God's footstool: over which he was understood to sit, on his +propitiatory, or mercy seat, as on a throne, between the wings of the +cherubims, in the sanctuary: to which the children of Israel paid a +great veneration. But as this psalm evidently relates to Christ, and the +New Testament, where the ark has no place, the holy fathers understand +this text, of the worship paid by the church to the body and blood of +Christ in the sacred mysteries: inasmuch as the humanity of Christ is, +as it were, the footstool of the divinity. So St. Ambrose, L. 3. De +Spiritu Sancto, c. 12. And St. Augustine upon this psalm. + +98:6. Moses and Aaron among his priests: and Samuel among them that call +upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heard them: + +Moses and Aaron among his priests... By this it is evident, that Moses +also was a priest, and indeed the chief priest, inasmuch as he +consecrated Aaron, and offered sacrifice for him. Lev. 8. So that his +pre-eminence over Aaron makes nothing for lay church headship. + +98:7. He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his +testimonies, and the commandment which he gave them. + +98:8. Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to +them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions. + +All their inventions... that is, all the enterprises of their enemies +against them, as in the case of Core, Dathan, and Abiron. + +98:9. Exalt ye the Lord our God, and adore at his holy mountain: for the +Lord our God is holy. + +Psalms Chapter 99 + +Jubilate Deo. + +All are invited to rejoice in God the creator of all. + +99:1. A psalm of praise. + +99:2. Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with +gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy. + +99:3. Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. +We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. + +99:4. Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and +give glory to him. Praise ye his name: + +99:5. For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth +to generation and generation. + +Psalms Chapter 100 + +Misericordiam et judicium. + +The prophet exhorteth all by his example, to follow mercy and justice. + +100:1. A psalm for David himself. Mercy and judgment I will sing to +thee, O Lord: I will sing, + +100:2. And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come +to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house. + +I will understand, etc... That is, I will apply my mind, I will do my +endeavour, to know and to follow the perfect way of thy commandments: +not trusting to my own strength, but relying on thy coming to me by thy +grace. + +100:3. I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the +workers of iniquities. + +100:4. The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that +turned aside from me, I would not know. + +100:5. The man that in private detracted his neighbour, him did I +persecute. With him that had a proud eye, and an unsatiable heart, I +would not eat. + +100:6. My eyes were upon the faithful of the earth, to sit with me: the +man that walked in the perfect way, he served me. + +100:7. He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: +he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes. + +100:8. In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land: that I +might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord. + +Psalms Chapter 101 + +Domine, exaudi. + +A prayer for one in affliction: the fifth penitential psalm. + +101:1. The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out +his supplication before the Lord. + +101:2. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee. + +101:3. Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, +incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear +me speedily. + +101:4. For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry +like fuel for the fire. + +101:5. I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot +to eat my bread. + +101:6. Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my +flesh. + +101:7. I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a +night raven in the house. + +A pelican, etc... I am become through grief, like birds that affect +solitude and darkness. + +101:8. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the +housetop. + +101:9. All the day long my enemies reproached me: and they that praised +me did swear against me. + +101:10. For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with +weeping. + +101:11. Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up +thou hast thrown me down. + +101:12. My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like +grass. + +101:13. But thou, O Lord, endurest for ever: and thy memorial to all +generations. + +101:14. Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have +mercy on it, for the time is come. + +101:15. For the stones thereof have pleased thy servants: and they shall +have pity on the earth thereof. + +101:16. All the Gentiles shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all the kings +of the earth thy glory. + +101:17. For the Lord hath built up Sion: and he shall be seen in his +glory. + +101:18. He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not +despised their petition. + +101:19. Let these things be written unto another generation: and the +people that shall be created shall praise the Lord: + +101:20. Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from +heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth. + +101:21. That he might hear the groans of them that are in fetters: that +he might release the children of the slain: + +101:22. That they may declare the name of the Lord in Sion: and his +praise in Jerusalem; + +101:23. When the people assemble together, and kings, to serve the Lord. + +101:24. He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the +fewness of my days. + +He answered him in the way of his strength... That is, the people, +mentioned in the foregoing verse, or the penitent, in whose person this +psalm is delivered, answered the Lord in the way of his strength: that +is, according to the best of his power and strength: or when he was in +the flower of his age and strength: inquiring after the fewness of his +days: to know if he should live long enough to see the happy restoration +of Sion, etc. + +101:25. Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto +generation and generation. + +101:26. In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the +heavens are the works of thy hands. + +101:27. They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow +old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they +shall be changed. + +101:28. But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail. + +101:29. The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall +be directed for ever. + +Psalms Chapter 102 + +Benedic, anima. + +Thanksgiving to God for his mercies. + +102:1. For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and let all that is +within me bless his holy name. + +102:2. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and never forget all he hath done for +thee. + +102:3. Who forgiveth all thy iniquities: who healeth all thy diseases. + +102:4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with +mercy and compassion. + +102:5. Who satisfieth thy desire with good things: thy youth shall be +renewed like the eagle's. + +102:6. The Lord doth mercies, and judgment for all that suffer wrong. + +102:7. He hath made his ways known to Moses: his wills to the children +of Israel. + +102:8. The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and +plenteous in mercy. 102:9. He will not always be angry: nor will he +threaten for ever. + +102:10. He hath not dealt with us according to our sins: nor rewarded us +according to our iniquities. + +102:11. For according to the height of the heaven above the earth: he +hath strengthened his mercy towards them that fear him. + +102:12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our +iniquities from us. + +102:13. As a father hath compassion on his children, so hath the Lord +compassion on them that fear him: + +102:14. For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust: + +102:15. Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he +flourish. + +102:16. For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he +shall know his place no more. + +102:17. But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity and unto eternity +upon them that fear him: And his justice unto children's children, + +102:18. To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his +commandments to do them. + +102:19. The lord hath prepared his throne in heaven: and his kingdom +shall rule over all. + +102:20. Bless the Lord, all ye his angels: you that are mighty in +strength, and execute his word, hearkening to the voice of his orders. + +102:21. Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts: you ministers of his that do +his will. + +102:22. Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion, O +my soul, bless thou the Lord. + +Psalms Chapter 103 + +Benedic, anima. + +God is to be praised for his mighty works, and wonderful providence. + +103:1. For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou +art exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty: + +103:2. And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out +the heaven like a pavilion: + +103:3. Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the +clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds. + +103:4. Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire. + +103:5. Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be +moved for ever and ever. + +103:6. The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains +shall the waters stand. + +103:7. At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they +shall fear. + +103:8. The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which +thou hast founded for them. + +103:9. Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over; neither +shall they return to cover the earth. + +103:10. Thou sendest forth springs in the vales: between the midst of +the hills the waters shall pass. + +103:11. All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall +expect in their thirst. + +103:12. Over them the birds of the air shall dwell: from the midst of +the rocks they shall give forth their voices. + +103:13. Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be +filled with the fruit of thy works: + +103:14. Bringing forth grass for cattle, and herb for the service of +men. That thou mayst bring bread out of the earth: + +103:15. And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the +face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man's heart. + +103:16. The trees of the field shall be filled, and the cedars of +Libanus which he hath planted: + +103:17. There the sparrows shall make their nests. The highest of them +is the house of the heron. + +103:18. The high hills are a refuge for the harts, the rock for the +irchins. + +103:19. He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going +down. + +103:20. Thou hast appointed darkness, and it is night: in it shall all +the beasts of the woods go about: + +103:21. The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat +from God. + +103:22. The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall +lie down in their dens. + +103:23. Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the +evening. + +103:24. How great are thy works, O Lord? thou hast made all things in +wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches. + +103:25. So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are +creeping things without number: Creatures little and great. + +103:26. There the ships shall go. This sea dragon which thou hast formed +to play therein. + +103:27. All expect of thee that thou give them food in season. + +103:28. What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest +thy hand, they shall all be filled with good. + +103:29. But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou +shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to +their dust. + +103:30. Thou shalt send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created: and +thou shalt renew the face of the earth. + +103:31. May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall +rejoice in his works. + +103:32. He looketh upon the earth, and maketh it tremble: he troubleth +the mountains, and they smoke. + +103:33. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to +my God while I have my being. + +103:34. Let my speech be acceptable to him: but I will take delight in +the Lord. + +103:35. Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and the unjust, so +that they be no more: O my soul, bless thou the Lord. + +Psalms Chapter 104 + +Confitemini Domino. + +A thanksgiving to God for his benefits to his people Israel. + +Alleluia. + +104:1. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds +among the Gentiles. + +104:2. Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous +works. + +104:3. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that +seek the Lord. + +104:4. Seek ye the lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore. + +104:5. Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, +and the judgments of his mouth. + +104:6. O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen. + +104:7. He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth. + +104:8. He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he +commanded to a thousand generations. + +104:9. Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac: + +104:10. And he appointed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for +an everlasting testament: + +104:11. Saying: To thee will I give the land of Chanaan, the lot of your +inheritance. + +104:12. When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners +therein: + +104:13. And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to +another people. + +104:14. He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their +sakes. + +104:15. Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets. + +104:16. And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all +the support of bread. + +104:17. He sent a man before them: Joseph, who was sold for a slave. + +104:18. They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul, + +104:19. Until his word came. The word of the Lord inflamed him. + +104:20. The king sent, and he released him: the ruler of the people, and +he set him at liberty. + +104:21. He made him master of his house, and ruler of all his +possession. + +104:22. That he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his +ancients wisdom. + +104:23. And Israel went into Egypt: and Jacob was a sojourner in the +land of Cham. + +104:24. And he increased his people exceedingly: and strengthened them +over their enemies. + +104:25. He turned their heart to hate his people: and to deal +deceitfully with his servants. + +He turned their heart, etc... Not that God (who is never the author of +sin) moved the Egyptians to hate and persecute his people; but that the +Egyptians took occasion of hating and envying them, from the sight of +the benefits which God bestowed upon them. + +104:26. He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen. + +104:27. He gave them power to shew them signs, and his wonders in the +land of Cham. + +104:28. He sent darkness, and made it obscure: and grieved not his +words. + +Grieved not his words... That is, he was not wanting to fulfil his +words: or he did not grieve Moses and Aaron, the carriers of his words: +or he did not grieve his words, that is, his sons, the children of +Israel, who enjoyed light whilst the Egyptians were oppressed with +darkness. + +104:29. He turned their waters into blood, and destroyed their fish. + +104:30. Their land brought forth frogs, in the inner chambers of their +kings. + +104:31. He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies and sciniphs in +all their coasts. + +Sciniphs... See the annotation, Ex.8.16. + +104:32. He gave them hail for rain, a burning fire in the land. + +104:33. And he destroyed their vineyards and their fig trees: and he +broke in pieces the trees of their coasts. + +104:34. He spoke, and the locust came, and the bruchus, of which there +was no number. + +Bruchus... An insect of the locust kind. + +104:35. And they devoured all the grass in their land, and consumed all +the fruit of their ground. + +104:36. And he slew all the firstborn in their land: the firstfruits of +all their labour. + +104:37. And he brought them out with silver and gold: and there was not +among their tribes one that was feeble. + +104:38. Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them lay upon +them. + +104:39. He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them +light in the night. + +104:40. They asked, and the quail came: and he filled them with the +bread of heaven. + +104:41. He opened the rock, and waters flowed: rivers ran down in the +dry land. + +104:42. Because he remembered his holy word, which he had spoken to his +servant Abraham. + +104:43. And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with +gladness. + +104:44. And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed +the labours of the people: + +104:45. That they might observe his justifications, and seek after his +law. + +His justifications... That is, his commandments; which here, and in many +other places of the scripture, are called justifications, because the +keeping of them makes man just. The Protestants render it by the word +statutes, in favour of their doctrine, which does not allow good works +to justify. + +Psalms Chapter 105 + +Confitemini Domino. + +A confession of the manifold sins and ingratitudes of the Israelites. + +Alleluia. + +105:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth +for ever. + +105:2. Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all +his praises? + +105:3. Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times. + +105:4. Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with +thy salvation. + +105:5. That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in +the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance. + +105:6. We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have +wrought iniquity. + +105:7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered +not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to +the sea, even the Red Sea. + +105:8. And he saved them for his own name's sake: that he might make his +power known. + +105:9. And he rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up: and he led them +through the depths, as in a wilderness. + +105:10. And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he +redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. + +105:11. And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not +one of them left. + +105:12. And they believed his words: and they sang his praises. + +105:13. They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited +not for his counsel. + +105:14. And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted +God in the place without water. + +105:15. And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their +souls. + +105:16. And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the +Lord. + +105:17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the +congregation of Abiron. + +105:18. And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned +the wicked. + +105:19. They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven +thing. + +105:20. And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that +eateth grass. + +105:21. They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in +Egypt, + +105:22. Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red +Sea. + +105:23. And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen +stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should +destroy them. + +105:24. And they set at nought the desirable land. They believed not his +word, + +105:25. And they murmured in their tents: they hearkened not to the +voice of the Lord. + +105:26. And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the +desert; + +105:27. And to cast down their seed among the nations, and to scatter +them in the countries. + +105:28. They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices +of the dead. + +Initiated... That is, they dedicated, or consecrated themselves to the +idol of the Moabites and Madianites, called Beelphegor, or Baal-Peor. +Num. 25.3.-Ibid. The dead... Viz., idols without life. + +105:29. And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was +multiplied among them. + +105:30. Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter +ceased. + +105:31. And it was reputed to him unto justice, to generation and +generation for evermore. + +105:32. They provoked him also at the waters of contradiction: and Moses +was afflicted for their sakes: + +105:33. Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with +his lips. + +He distinguished with his lips... Moses, by occasion of the people's +rebellion and incredulity, was guilty of distinguishing with his lips; +when, instead of speaking to the rock, as God had commanded, he said to +the people, with a certain hesitation in his faith, Hear ye, rebellious +and incredulous: Can we from this rock bring out water for you? Num. +20.10. + +105:34. They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto +them. + +105:35. And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their +works: + +105:36. And served their idols, and it became a stumblingblock to them. + +105:37. And they sacrificed their sons, and their daughters to devils. + +105:38. And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of +their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the +land was polluted with blood, + +105:39. And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after +their own inventions. + +105:40. And the Lord was exceedingly angry with his people: and he +abhorred his inheritance. + +105:41. And he delivered them into the hands of the nations: and they +that hated them had dominion over them. + +105:42. And their enemies afflicted them: and they were humbled under +their hands: + +105:43. Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their +counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities. + +105:44. And he saw when they were in tribulation: and he heard their +prayer. + +105:45. And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to +the multitude of his mercies. + +105:46. And he gave them unto mercies, in the sight of all those that +had made them captives. + +105:47. Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations: +That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise. + +105:48. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, from everlasting to +everlasting: and let all the people say: So be it, so be it. + +Psalms Chapter 106 + +Confitemini Domino. + +All are invited to give thanks to God for his perpetual providence over +men.. + +Alleluia. + +106:1. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth +for ever. + +106:2. Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath +redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries. + +106:3. From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north +and from the sea. + +106:4. They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they +found not the way of a city for their habitation. + +106:5. They were hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them. + +106:6. And they cried to the Lord in their tribulation: and he delivered +them out of their distresses. + +106:7. And he led them into the right way, that they might go to a city +of habitation. + +106:8. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful +works to the children of men. + +106:9. For he hath satisfied the empty soul, and hath filled the hungry +soul with good things. + +106:10. Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death: bound in +want and in iron. + +106:11. Because they had exasperated the words of God: and provoked the +counsel of the most High: + +106:12. And their heart was humbled with labours: they were weakened, +and there was none to help them. + +106:13. Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he +delivered them out of their distresses. + +106:14. And he brought them out of darkness, and the shadow of death; +and broke their bonds in sunder. + +106:15. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful +works to the children of men. + +106:16. Because he hath broken gates of brass, and burst iron bars. + +106:17. He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were +brought low for their injustices. + +106:18. Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they drew nigh even +to the gates of death. + +106:19. And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he delivered +them out of their distresses. + +106:20. He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their +destructions. + +106:21. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him: and his wonderful +works to the children of men. + +106:22. And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his +works with joy. + +106:23. They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the +great waters: + +106:24. These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the +deep. + +106:25. He said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves +thereof were lifted up. + +106:26. They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: +their soul pined away with evils. + +106:27. They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their +wisdom was swallowed up. + +106:28. And they cried to the Lord in their affliction: and he brought +them out of their distresses. + +106:29. And he turned the storm into a breeze: and its waves were still. + +106:30. And they rejoiced because they were still: and he brought them +to the haven which they wished for. + +106:31. Let the mercies of the Lord give glory to him, and his wonderful +works to the children of men. + +106:32. And let them exalt him in the church of the people: and praise +him in the chair of the ancients. + +106:33. He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of +waters into dry ground: + +106:34. A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that +dwell therein. + +106:35. He hath turned a wilderness into pools of waters, and a dry land +into water springs. + +106:36. And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their +habitation. + +106:37. Anti they sowed fields, and planted vineyards: and they yielded +fruit of birth. + +106:38. And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and +their cattle he suffered not to decrease. + +106:39. Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted +through the trouble of evils and sorrow. + +106:40. Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them +to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way. + +106:41. And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families +like a flock of sheep. + +106:42. The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall +stop her mouth. + +106:43. Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the +mercies of the Lord? + +Psalms Chapter 107 + +Paratum cor meum. + +The prophet praiseth God for benefits received. + +107:1. A canticle of a psalm for David himself. + +107:2. My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and +will give praise, with my glory. + +107:3. Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the +morning early. + +107:4. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing +unto thee among the nations. + +107:5. For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto +the clouds. + +107:6. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all +the earth: + +107:7. That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and +hear me. + +107:8. God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will +divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles. + +107:9. Galaad is mine: and Manasses is mine and Ephraim the protection +of my head. Juda is my king: + +107:10. Moab the pot of my hope. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe: +the aliens are become my friends. + +107:11. Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into +Edom? + +107:12. Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, +O God, go forth with our armies? + +107:13. O grant us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. + +107:14. Through God we shall do mightily: and he will bring our enemies +to nothing. + +Psalms Chapter 108 + +Deus, laudem meam. + +David in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors; more +especially the traitor Judas: foretelling and approving his just +punishment for his obstinacy in sin and final impenitence. + +108:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David. + +108:2. O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the +wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me. + +108:3. They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have +compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me +without cause. + +108:4. Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I +gave myself to prayer. + +108:5. And they repaid me evil for good: and hatred for my love. + +108:6. Set thou the sinner over him: and may the devil stand at his +right hand. + +Set thou the sinner over him, etc... Give to the devil, that arch- +sinner, power over him: let him enter into him, and possess him. The +imprecations, contained in the thirty verses of this psalm, are opposed +to the thirty pieces of silver for which Judas betrayed our Lord; and +are to be taken as prophetic denunciations of the evils that should +befall the traitor and his accomplices the Jews; and not properly as +curses. + +108:7. When he is judged, may he go out condemned; and may his prayer be +turned to sin. + +108:8. May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take. + +108:9. May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. + +108:10. Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let +them be cast out of their dwellings. + +108:11. May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers +plunder his labours. + +108:12. May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless +offspring. + +108:13. May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be +blotted out. + +108:14. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of +the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. + +108:15. May they be before the Lord continually, and let the memory of +them perish from the earth: 16 because he remembered not to shew +mercy, + +108:17. But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in +heart, to put him to death. + +108:18. And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would +not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, +like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like +oil in his bones. + +108:19. May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a +girdle with which he is girded continually. + +108:20. This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who +speak evils against my soul. + +108:21. But thou, O Lord, do with me for thy name's sake: because thy +mercy is sweet. Do thou deliver me, + +108:22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me. + +108:23. I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am +shaken off as locusts. + +108:24. My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed +for oil. + +For oil... Propter oleum. The meaning is, my flesh is changed, being +perfectly emaciated and dried up, as having lost all its oil or fatness. + +108:25. And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked +their heads. + +108:26. Help me, O Lord my God; save me; according to thy mercy. + +108:27. And let them know that this is thy hand: and that thou, O Lord, +hast done it. + +108:28. They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up +against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice. + +108:29. Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be +covered with their confusion as with a double cloak. + +108:30. I will give great thanks to the Lord with my mouth: and in the +midst of many I will praise him. + +108:31. Because he hath stood at the right hand of the poor, to save my +soul from persecutors. + +Psalms Chapter 109 + +Dixit Dominus. + +Christ's exaltation and everlasting priesthood. + +109:1. A psalm for David. The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right +hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool. + +109:2. The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: +rule thou in the midst of thy enemies. + +109:3. With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the +brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot +thee. + +109:4. The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent: Thou art a priest +for ever according to the order of Melchisedech. + +109:5. The Lord at thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of his +wrath. + +109:6. He shall judge among nations, he shall fill ruins: he shall crush +the heads in the land of many. + +109:7. He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall he lift +up the head. + +Psalms Chapter 110 + +Confitebor tibi, Domine. + +God is to be praised for his graces, and benefits to his church. + +Alleluia. + +110:1. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; in the council +of the just, and in the congregation. + +110:2. Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his +wills. + +110:3. His work is praise and magnificence: and his justice continueth +for ever and ever. + +110:4. He hath made a remembrance of his wonderful works, being a +merciful and gracious Lord: + +110:5. He hath given food to them that fear him. He will be mindful for +ever of his covenant: + +110:6. He will shew forth to his people the power of his works. + +110:7. That he may give them the inheritance of the Gentiles: the works +of his hands are truth and judgment. + +110:8. All his commandments are faithful: confirmed for ever and ever, +made in truth and equity. + +110:9. He hath sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his +covenant for ever. Holy and terrible is his name: + +110:10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good +understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and +ever. + +Psalms Chapter 111 + +Beatus vir. + +The good man is happy. + +Alleluia, of the returning of Aggeus and Zacharias. + +Of the returning, etc... This is in the Greek and Latin, but not in the +Hebrew. It signifies that this psalm was proper to be sung at the time +of the return of the people from their captivity; to inculcate to them, +how happy they might be, if they would be constant in the service of +God. + +111:1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight +exceedingly in his commandments. + +111:2. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the +righteous shall be blessed. + +111:3. Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth +for ever and ever. + +111:4. To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, +and compassionate and just. + +111:5. Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall +order his words with judgment: + +111:6. Because he shall not be moved for ever. + +111:7. The just shall be in everlasting remembrance: he shall not fear +the evil hearing. His heart is ready to hope in the Lord: + +111:8. His heart is strengthened, he shall not be moved until he look +over his enemies. + +111:9. He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice +remaineth for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory. + +111:10. The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with +his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish. + +Psalms Chapter 112 + +Laudate, pueri. + +God is to be praised for his regard to the poor and humble. + +Alleluia. + +112:1. Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord. + +112:2. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for +ever. 112:3. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, +the name of the Lord is worthy of praise. + +112:4. The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the +heavens. + +112:5. Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high: 6 and looketh +down on the low things in heaven and in earth? + +112:7. Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out +of the dunghill: + +112:8. That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his +people. + +112:9. Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother +of children. + +Psalms Chapter 113 + +In exitu Israel. + +God hath shewn his power in delivering his people: idols are vain. The +Hebrews divide this into two psalms. + +Alleluia. + +113:1. When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a +barbarous people: + +113:2. Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. + +113:3. The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. + +113:4. The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of +the flock. 113:5. What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and +thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back? + +113:6. Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs +of the flock? + +113:7. At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence +of the God of Jacob: + +113:8. Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into +fountains of waters. + +113:1. Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory. + +113:2. For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the Gentiles should +say: Where is their God? + +113:3. But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he +would. + +113:4. The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the +hands of men. + +113:5. They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not. + +113:6. They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not. + +113:7. They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: +neither shall they cry out through their throat. + +113:8. Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as +trust in them. + +113:9. The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper +and their protector. + +113:10. The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper +and their protector. + +113:11. They that fear the Lord have hoped in the Lord: he is their +helper and their protector. + +113:12. The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath +blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron. + +113:13. He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great. + +113:14. May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your +children. + +113:15. Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. + +113:16. The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given +to the children of men. + +113:17. The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go +down to hell. + +113:18. But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for +ever. + +Psalms Chapter 114 + +Dilexi. + +The prayer of a just man in affliction, with a lively confidence in God. + +Alleluia. + +114:1. I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. + +114:2. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will +call upon him. + +114:3. The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell +have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: + +114:4. And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul. + +114:5. The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy. + +114:6. The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he +delivered me. + +114:7. Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful +to thee. + +114:8. For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my +feet from falling. + +114:9. I will please the Lord in the land of the living. + +Psalms Chapter 115 + +Credidi. + +This in the Hebrew is joined with the foregoing psalm, and continues to +express the faith and gratitude of the psalmist. + +Alleluia. 115:10. I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have +been humbled exceedingly. + +115:11. I said in my excess: Every man is a liar. + +115:12. What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things that he hath +rendered to me? + +115:13. I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the +name of the Lord. + +115:14. I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people: + +115:15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. + +115:16. O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of +thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds: + +115:17. I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will +call upon the name of the Lord. + +115:18. I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people: + +115:19. In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O +Jerusalem. + +Psalms Chapter 116 + +Laudate Dominum. + +All nations are called upon to praise God for his mercy and truth. + +Alleluia. + +116:1. O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. + +116:2. For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord +remaineth for ever. + +Psalms Chapter 117 + +Confitemini Domino. + +The psalmist praiseth God for his delivery from evils: putteth his whole +trust in him; and foretelleth the coming of Christ. + +Alleluia. + +117:1. Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth +for ever. + +117:2. Let Israel now say, that he is good: that his mercy endureth for +ever. + +117:3. Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. + +117:4. Let them that fear the Lord now say, that his mercy endureth for +ever. + +117:5. In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and +enlarged me. + +117:6. The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man can do unto me. + +117:7. The Lord is my helper: and I will look over my enemies. + +117:8. It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence +in man. + +117:9. It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes. + +117:10. All nations compassed me about; and, in the name of the Lord I +have been revenged on them. + +117:11. Surrounding me they compassed me about: and in the name of the +Lord I have been revenged on them. + +117:12. They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among +thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them. + +117:13. Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: but the Lord +supported me. + +117:14. The Lord is my strength and my praise: and he is become my +salvation. + +117:15. The voice of rejoicing and of salvation is in the tabernacles of +the just. + +117:16. The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand +of the Lord hath exalted me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought +strength. + +117:17. I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the +Lord. + +117:18. The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but he hath not delivered +me over to death. + +117:19. Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go in to them, and +give praise to the Lord. + +117:20. This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it. + +117:21. I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art +become my salvation. + +117:22. The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the +head of the corner. + +117:23. This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes. + +117:24. This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and +rejoice therein. + +117:25. O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good success. + +117:26. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have +blessed you out of the house of the Lord. + +117:27. The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn +day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the altar. + +117:28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, and I +will exalt thee. I will praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and art +become my salvation. + +117:29. O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for +ever. + +Psalms Chapter 118 + +Beati immaculati. + +Of the excellence of virtue consisting in the love and observance of the +commandments of God. + +Alleluia. + +ALEPH. + +Aleph... The first eight verses of this psalm in the original begin with +Aleph, which is the name of the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The +second eight verses begin with Beth, the name of the second letter of +the Hebrew alphabet; and so to the end of the whole alphabet, in all +twenty-two letters, each letter having eight verses. This order is +variously expounded by the holy fathers; which shews the difficulty of +understanding the holy scriptures, and consequently with what humility, +and submission to the Church they are to be read. + +118:1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the +Lord. + +118:2. Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with +their whole heart. + +His testimonies... The commandments of God are called his testimonies, +because they testify his holy will unto us. Note here, that in almost +every verse of this psalm (which in number are 176) the word and law of +God, and the love and observance of it, is perpetually inculcated, under +a variety of denominations, all signifying the same thing. + +118:3. For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways. + +118:4. Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently. + +118:5. O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications. + +118:6. Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy +commandments. + +118:7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have +learned the judgments of thy justice. + +118:8. I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake +me. + +BETH. + + +118:9. By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words. + +118:10. With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray +from thy commandments. + +118:11. Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against +thee. + +118:12. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications. + +118:13. With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth. + +118:14. I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all +riches. + +118:15. I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy +ways. + +118:16. I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. + +GIMEL. + +118:17. Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep +thy words. + +118:18. Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of +thy law. + +118:19. I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from +me. + +118:20. My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all +times. + +118:21. Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from +thy commandments. + +118:22. Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought +after thy testimonies. + +118:23. For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was +employed in thy justifications. + +118:24. For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my +counsel. + +DALETH. + +118:25. My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according +to thy word. + +118:26. I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: teach me thy +justifications. + +118:27. Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall +be exercised in thy wondrous works. + +118:28. My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in +thy words. + +118:29. Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have +mercy on me. + +118:30. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not +forgotten. + +118:31. I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame. + +118:32. I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge +my heart. + +HE. + +118:33. Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: +and I will always seek after it. + +118:34. Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will +keep it with my whole heart. + +118:35. Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have +desired. + +118:36. Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness. + +118:37. Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in +thy way. + +118:38. Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear. + +118:39. Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy +judgments are delightful. + +118:40. Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy +justice. + +VAU. + +118: 41. Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation +according to thy word. + +118:42. So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I +have trusted in thy words. + +118:43. And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for +in thy words, I have hoped exceedingly. + +118:44. So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever. + +118:45. And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy +commandments. + +118:46. And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not +ashamed. + +118:47. I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved. + +118:48. And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and +I was exercised in thy justifications. + +ZAIN. + + +118:49. Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast +given me hope. + +118:50. This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath +enlivened me. + +118:51. The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from +thy law. + +118:52. I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted. + +118:53. A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that +forsake thy law. + +118:54. Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of +my pilgrimage. + +118:55. In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept +thy law. + +118:56. This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications. + +HETH. + +118:57. O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law. + +118:58. I entreated thy face with all my heart: have mercy on me +according to thy word. + +118:59. I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy +testimonies. + +118:60. I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy +commandments. + +118:61. The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not +forgotten thy law. + +118:62. I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of +thy justification. + +118:63. I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy +commandments. + +118:64. The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy +justifications. + +TETH. + + +118:65. Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy +word. + +118:66. Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have +believed thy commandments. + +118:67. Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word. + +118:68. Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications. + +118:69. The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I +will seek thy commandments with my whole heart. + +118:70. Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy +law. + +118:71. It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn +thy justifications. + +118:72. The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and +silver. + +JOD. + + +118:73. Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and +I will learn thy commandments. + +118:74. They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad: because I +have greatly hoped in thy words. + +118:75. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth +thou hast humbled me. + +118:76. O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto +thy servant. + +118:77. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy +law is my meditation. + +118:78. Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly +towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments. + +118:79. Let them that fear thee turn to me: and they that know thy +testimonies. + +118:80. Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not +be confounded. + +CAPH. + + +118:81. My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have +very much hoped. + +118:82. My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort +me? + +118:83. For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten +thy justifications. + +118:84. How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute +judgment on them that persecute me? + +118:85. The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law. + +118:86. All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do +thou help me. + +118:87. They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not +forsaken thy commandments. + +118:88. Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the +testimonies of thy mouth. + +LAMED. + +118:89. For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven. + +118:90. Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and +it continueth. + +118:91. By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee. + +118:92. Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps +perished in my abjection. + +118:93. Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast +given me life. + +118:94. I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications. + +118:95. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have +understood thy testimonies. + +118:96. I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is +exceeding broad. + +MEM. + +118:97. O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the +day. + +118:98. Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my +enemies: for it is ever with me. + +118:99. I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy +testimonies are my meditation. + +118:100. I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought +thy commandments. + +118:101. I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep +thy words. + +118:102. I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set +me a law. + +118:103. How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my +mouth. + +118:104. By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I +hated every way of iniquity. + +NUN. + +118:105. Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths. + +118:106. I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy +justice. + +118:107. I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly: quicken thou me +according to thy word. + +118:108. The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and +teach me thy judgments. + +118:109. My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten +thy law. + +118:110. Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy +precepts. + +118:111. I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: +because they are the joy of my heart. + +118:112. I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for +the reward. + +SAMECH. + + +118:113. I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law. + +118:114. Thou art my helper and my protector: and in thy word I have +greatly hoped. + +118:115. Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the +commandments of my God. + +118:116. Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me +not be confounded in my expectation. + +118:117. Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on +thy justifications. + +118:118. Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; +for their thought is unjust. + +118:119. I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: +therefore have I loved thy testimonies. + +118:120. Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy +judgments. + +AIN. + +118:121. I have done judgment and justice: give me not up to them that +slander me. + +118:122. Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me. + +118:123. My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of +thy justice. + +118:124. Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy +justifications. + +118:125. I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy +testimonies. + +118:126. It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law. + +118:127. Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the +topaz. + +118:128. Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated +all wicked ways. + +PHE. + + +118:129. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought +them. + +118:130. The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth +understanding to little ones. + +118:131. I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy +commandments. + +118:132. Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me according to the +judgment of them that love thy name. + +118:133. Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity have +dominion over me. + +118:134. Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy +commandments. + +118:135. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy +justifications. + +118:136. My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not +kept thy law. + +SADE. + +118:137. Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right. + +118:138. Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth +exceedingly. + +118:139. My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy +words. + +118:140. Thy word is exceedingly refined: and thy servant hath loved it. + +118:141. I am very young and despised; but I forget not thy +justifications. + +118:142. Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is the truth. + +118:143. Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my +meditation. + +118:144. Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, +and I shall live. + +COPH. + +118:145. I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek thy +justifications. + +118:146. I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments. + +118:147. I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy +words I very much hoped. + +118:148. My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might +meditate on thy words. + +118:149. Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and quicken +me according to thy judgment. + +118:150. They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they +are gone far off from thy law. + +118:151. Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth. + +118:152. I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies: +that thou hast founded them for ever. + +RES. + +118:153. See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy +law. + +118:154. Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word's +sake. + +118:155. Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy +justifications. + +118:156. Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy +judgment. + +118:157. Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not +declined from thy testimonies. + +118:158. I beheld the transgressors, and pined away; because they kept +not thy word. + +118:159. Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou +in thy mercy. + +118:160. The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy +justice are for ever. + +SIN. + +118:161. Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath +been in awe of thy words. + +118:162. I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great +spoil. + +118:163. I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law. + +118:164. Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the +judgments of thy justice. + +118:165. Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no +stumbling block. + +118:166. I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy +commandments. + +118:167. My soul hath kept thy testimonies and hath loved them +exceedingly. + +118:168. I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all +my ways are in thy sight. + +TAU. + +118:169. Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me +understanding according to thy word. + +118:170. Let my request come in before thee; deliver thou me according +to thy word. + +118:171. My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy +justifications. + +118:172. My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy +commandments are justice. + +118:173. Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy +precepts. + +118:174. I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my +meditation. + +118:175. My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments +shall help me. + +118:176. I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, +because I have not forgotten thy commandments. + +Psalms Chapter 119 + +Ad Dominum. + +A prayer in tribulation. + +A gradual canticle. + +A gradual canticle... The following psalms, in number fifteen, are +called gradual psalms, or canticles, from the word gradus, signifying +steps, ascensions, or degrees: either because they were appointed to be +sung on the fifteen steps, by which the people ascended to the temple: +or, that in the singing of them the voice was to be raised by certain +steps or ascensions: or, that they were to be sung by the people +returning from their captivity and ascending to Jerusalem, which was +seated amongst mountains. The holy fathers, in a mystical sense, +understand these steps, or ascensions, of the degrees by which +Christians spiritually ascend to virtue and perfection; and to the true +temple of God in the heavenly Jerusalem. + +119:1. In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me. + +119:2. O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue. + +119:3. What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a +deceitful tongue? + +119:4. The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste. + +119:5. Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the +inhabitants of Cedar: + +119:6. My soul hath been long a sojourner. + +119:7. With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them +they fought against me without cause. + +Psalms Chapter 120 + +Levavi oculos. + +God is the keeper of his servants. + +A gradual canticle. + +120:1. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall +come to me. + +120:2. My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. + +120:3. May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber +that keepeth thee. + +120:4. Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel. + +120:5. The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right +hand. + +120:6. The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night. + +120:7. The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul. + +120:8. May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from +henceforth now and for ever. + +Psalms Chapter 121 + +Laetatus sum in his. + +The desire and hope of the just for the coming of the kingdom of God, +and the peace of his church. + +121:1. A gradual canticle. + +I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the +house of the Lord. + +121:2. Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem. + +121:3. Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together. + +121:4. For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the +testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord. + +121:5. Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of +David. + +121:6. Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and +abundance for them that love thee. + +121:7. Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers. + +121:8. For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace +of thee. + +121:9. Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good +things for thee. + +Psalms Chapter 122 + +Ad te levavi. + +A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God. + +A gradual canticle. + +122:1. To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. + +122:2. Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, +As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our +eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us. + +122:3. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly +filled with contempt. + +122:4. For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, +and contempt to the proud. + +Psalms Chapter 123 + +Nisi quia Domini. + +The church giveth glory to God for her deliverance, from the hands of +her enemies. + +123:1. A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, +let Israel now say: + +123:2. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up +against us, + +123:3. Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was +enkindled against us, + +123:4. Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up. + +123:5. Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had +passed through a water insupportable. + +123:6. Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their +teeth. + +123:7. Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the +fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered. + +123:8. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. + +Psalms Chapter 124 + +Qui confidunt. + +The just are always under God's protection. + +124:1. A gradual canticle. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount +Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth + +124:2. In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round +about his people from henceforth now and for ever. + +124:3. For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of +the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity. + +124:4. Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of +heart. + +124:5. But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with +the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel. + +Psalms Chapter 125 + +In convertendo. + +The people of God rejoice at their delivery from captivity. + +125:1. A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of +Sion, we became like men comforted. + +125:2. Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. +Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things +for them. + +125:3. The Lord hath done great things for us: we are become joyful. + +125:4. Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south. + +125:5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. + +125:6. Going they went and wept, casting their seeds. + +125:7. But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their +sheaves. + +Psalms Chapter 126 + +Nisi Dominus. + +Nothing can be done without God's grace and blessing. + +126:1. A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, +they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he +watcheth in vain that keepeth it. + +126:2. It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have +sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to +his beloved, + +It is vain for you to rise before light... That is, your early rising, +your labour and worldly solicitude, will be vain, that is, will avail +you nothing, without the light, grace, and blessing of God. + +126:3. Behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the +fruit of the womb. + +126:4. As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that +have been shaken. + +126:5. Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he +shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate. + +Psalms Chapter 127 + +Beati omnes. + +The fear of God is the way to happiness. + +127:1. A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that +walk in his ways. + +127:2. For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, +and it shall be well with thee. + +127:3. Thy wife as a fruitful vine, on the sides of thy house. Thy +children as olive plants, round about thy table. + +127:4. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. + +127:5. May the Lord bless thee out of Sion: and mayst thou see the good +things of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. + +127:6. And mayst thou see thy children's children, peace upon Israel. + +Psalms Chapter 128 + +Saepe expugnaverunt. + +The church of God is invincible: her persecutors come to nothing. + +128:1. A gradual canticle. Often have they fought against me from my +youth, let Israel now say. + +128:2. Often have they fought against me from my youth: but they could +not prevail over me. + +128:3. The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their +iniquity. + +128:4. The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners: + +128:5. Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion. + +128:6. Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth +before it be plucked up: + +128:7. Who with the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth +sheaves his bosom. + +128:8. And they that passed by have not said: The blessing of the Lord +be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord. + +Psalms Chapter 129 + +De profundis. + +A prayer of a sinner, trusting in the mercies of God. The sixth +penitential psalm. + +129:1. A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O +Lord: + +129:2. Lord, hear my voice. Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my +supplication. + +129:3. If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it. + +129:4. For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy +law, I have waited for thee, O Lord. My soul hath relied on his word: +129:5. my soul hath hoped in the Lord. + +129:6. From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the +Lord. + +129:7. Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful +redemption. + +129:8. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. + +Psalms Chapter 130 + +Domine, none est. + +The prophet's humility. + +130:1. A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor +are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in +wonderful things above me. + +130:2. If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that +is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul. 130:3. Let Israel +hope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever. + +Psalms Chapter 131 + +Memento, Domine. + +A prayer for the fulfilling of the promise made to David. + +131:1. A gradual canticle. O Lord, remember David, and all his meekness. + +131:2. How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob: + +131:3. If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house: if I shall go +up into the bed wherein I lie: + +131:4. If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids, + +131:5. Or rest to my temples: until I find out a place for the Lord, a +tabernacle for the God of Jacob. + +131:6. Behold we have heard of it in Ephrata: we have found it in the +fields of the wood. + +We have heard of it in Ephrata... When I was young, and lived in +Bethlehem, otherwise called Ephrata, I heard of God's tabernacle and +ark, and had a devout desire of seeking it; and accordingly I found it +at Cariathiarim, the city of the woods: where it was till it was removed +to Jerusalem. See 1 Par. 13. + +131:7. We will go into his tabernacle: we will adore in the place where +his feet stood. + +131:8. Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which +thou hast sanctified. + +131:9. Let thy priests be clothed with justice: and let thy saints +rejoice. + +131:10. For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thy +anointed. + +131:11. The Lord hath sworn truth to David, and he will not make it +void: of the fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy throne. + +131:12. If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies +which I shall teach them: Their children also for evermore shall sit +upon thy throne. + +131:13. For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his +dwelling. + +131:14. This is my rest for ever and ever: here will I dwell, for I have +chosen it. + +131:15. Blessing I will bless her widow: I will satisfy her poor with +bread. + +131:16. I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall +rejoice with exceeding great joy. + +131:17. There will I bring forth a horn to David: I have prepared a lamp +for my anointed. + +131:18. His enemies I will clothe with confusion: but upon him shall my +sanctification flourish. + +Psalms Chapter 132 + +Ecce quam bonum. + +The happiness of brotherly love and concord. + +132:1. A gradual canticle of David. Behold how good and how pleasant it +is for brethren to dwell together in unity: + +132:2. Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the +beard, the beard of Aaron, Which ran down to the skirt of his garment: + +132:3. As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For there +the Lord hath commanded blessing, and life for evermore. + +Psalms Chapter 133 + +Ecce nunc benedicite. + +An exhortation to praise God continually. + +133:1. A gradual canticle. Behold now bless ye the Lord, all ye servants +of the Lord: Who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the +house of our God. + +133:2. In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye +the Lord. + +133:3. May the Lord out of Sion bless thee, he that made heaven and +earth. + +Psalms Chapter 134 + +Laudate nomen. + +An exhortation to praise God: the vanity of idols. + +134:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the name of the Lord: O you his servants, +praise the Lord: + +134:2. You that stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the +house of our God. + +134:3. Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord is good: sing ye to his name, +for it is sweet. + +134:4. For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself: Israel for his own +possession. + +134:5. For I have known that the Lord is great, and our God is above all +gods. + +134:6. Whatsoever the Lord pleased he hath done, in heaven, in earth, in +the sea, and in all the deeps. + +134:7. He bringeth up clouds from the end of the earth: he hath made +lightnings for the rain. He bringeth forth winds out of his stores: + +134:8. He slew the firstborn of Egypt from man even unto beast. + +134:9. He sent forth signs and wonders in the midst of thee, O Egypt: +upon Pharao, and upon all his servants. + +134:10. He smote many nations, and slew mighty kings: + +134:11. Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and Og king of Basan, and all the +kingdoms of Chanaan. + +134:12. And gave their land for an inheritance, for an inheritance to +his people Israel. + +134:13. Thy name, O Lord, is for ever: thy memorial, O Lord, unto all +generations. + +134:14. For the Lord will judge his people, and will be entreated in +favour of his servants. + +134:15. The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of +men's hands. + +134:16. They have a mouth, but they speak not: they have eyes, but they +see not. + +134:17. They have ears, but they hear not: neither is there any breath +in their mouths. + +134:18. Let them that make them be like to them: and every one that +trusteth in them. + +134:19. Bless the Lord, O house of Israel: bless the Lord, O house of +Aaron. + +134:20. Bless the Lord, O house of Levi: you that fear the Lord, bless +the Lord. + +134:21. Blessed be the Lord out of Sion, who dwelleth in Jerusalem. + +Psalms Chapter 135 + +Confitemini Domino. + +God is to be praised for his wonderful works. + +135:1. Alleluia. Praise the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth +for ever. + +Praise the Lord... By this invitation to praise the Lord, thrice +repeated, we profess the Blessed Trinity, One God in three distinct +Persons, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. + +135:2. Praise ye the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:3. Praise ye the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:4. Who alone doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:5. Who made the heavens in understanding: for his mercy endureth for +ever. + +135:6. Who established the earth above the waters: for his mercy +endureth for ever. + +135:7. Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:8. The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:9. The moon and the stars to rule the night: for his mercy endureth +for ever. + +135:10. Who smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for +ever. + +135:11. Who brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth +for ever. + +135:12. With a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy +endureth for ever. + +135:13. Who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for +ever. + +135:14. And brought out Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy +endureth for ever. + +135:15. And overthrew Pharao and his host in the Red Sea: for his mercy +endureth for ever. + +135:16. Who led his people through the desert: for his mercy endureth +for ever. + +135:17. Who smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:18. And slew strong kings: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:19. Sehon king of the Amorrhites: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:20. And Og king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:21. And he gave their land for an inheritance: for his mercy +endureth for ever. + +135:22. For an inheritance to his servant Israel: for his mercy endureth +for ever. + +135:23. For he was mindful of us in our affliction: for his mercy +endureth for ever. + +135:24. And he redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for +ever. + +135:25. Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever. + +135:26. Give glory to the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for +ever. + +135:27. Give glory to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for +ever. + +Psalms Chapter 136 + +Super flumina. + +The lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon. + +A psalm of David, for Jeremias. + +For Jeremias... For the time of Jeremias, and the captivity of Babylon. + +136:1. Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we +remembered Sion: + +136:2. On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments. + +136:3. For there they that led us into captivity required of us the +words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a +hymn of the songs of Sion. + +136:4. How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land? + +136:5. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten. + +136:6. Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I +make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy. + +136:7. Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: +Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. + +136:8. O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall +repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us. + +136:9. Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy little ones against +the rock. + +Dash thy little ones, etc... In the spiritual sense, we dash the little +ones of Babylon against the rock, when we mortify our passions, and +stifle the first motions of them, by a speedy recourse to the rock which +is Christ. + +Psalms Chapter 137 + +Confitebor tibi. + +Thanksgiving to God for his benefits. + +137:1. For David himself. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole +heart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to +thee in the sight of the angels: + +137:2. I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to +thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy +holy name above all. + +137:3. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me: thou shalt +multiply strength in my soul. + +137:4. May all the kings of the earth give glory to thee: for they have +heard all the words of thy mouth. + +137:5. And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory +of the Lord. + +137:6. For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he +knoweth afar off. + +137:7. If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken +me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my +enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me. + +137:8. The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: +O despise not the works of thy hands. + +Psalms Chapter 138 + +Domine, probasti. + +God's special providence over his servants. + +138:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and +known me: + +138:2. Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up. + +138:3. Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line +thou hast searched out. + +138:4. And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my +tongue. + +There is no speech, etc... Viz., unknown to thee: or when there is no +speech in my tongue; yet my whole interior and my most secret thoughts +are known to thee. + +138:5. Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of +old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me. + +138:6. Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot +reach to it. + +138:7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from +thy face? + +138:8 If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, +thou art present. + +138:9. If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the +uttermost parts of the sea: + +138:10. Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall +hold me. + +138:11. And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be +my light in my pleasures. + +138:12. But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light +all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to +thee. + +138:13. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my +mother's womb. + +138:14. I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful +are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well. + +138:15. My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: +and my substance in the lower parts of the earth. + +138:16. Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall +be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them. + +138:17. But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: +their principality is exceedingly strengthened. + +138:18. I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand, +I rose up and am still with thee. + +138:19. If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart +from me: + +138:20. Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in +vain. + +Because you say in thought, etc... Depart from me, you wicked, who plot +against the servants of God, and think to cast them out of the cities of +their habitation; as if they have received them in vain, and to no +purpose. + +138:21. Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away +because of thy enemies? + +138:22. I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become +enemies to me. + +I have hated them... Not with an hatred of malice, but a zeal for the +observance of God's commandments; which he saw were despised by the +wicked, who are to be considered enemies to God. + +138:23. Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my +paths. + +138:24. And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in +the eternal way. + +Psalms Chapter 139 + +Eripe me, Domine. + +A prayer to be delivered from the wicked. + +139:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David. + +139:2. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust +man. + +139:3. Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long +they designed battles. + +139:4. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of +asps is under their lips. + +139:5. Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men +deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps: + +139:6. The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out +cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the +wayside. + +139:7. I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of +my supplication. + +139:8. O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast +overshadowed my head in the day of battle. + +139:9. Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have +plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph. + +139:10. The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips +shall overwhelm them. + +139:11. Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down +into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand. + +139:12. A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil +shall catch the unjust man unto destruction. + +139:13. I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will +revenge the poor. + +139:14. But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the +upright shall dwell with thy countenance. + +Psalms Chapter 140 + +Domine, clamavi. + +A prayer against sinful words, and deceitful flatterers. + +A psalm of David. + +140:1. I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when +I cry to thee. + +140:2. Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up +of my hands, as evening sacrifice. + +140:3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my +lips. + +140:4. Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With +men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of +them. + +140:5. The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but +let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still +be against the things with which they are well pleased: + +Let not the oil of the sinner, etc... That is, the flattery, or +deceitful praise.-Ibid. For my prayer, etc... So far from coveting their +praises, who are never well pleased but with things that are evil; I +shall continually pray to be preserved from such things as they are +delighted with. + +140:6. Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They +shall hear my words, for they have prevailed: + +Their judges, etc... Their rulers, or chiefs, quickly vanish and perish, +like ships dashed against the rocks, and swallowed up by the waves. Let +them then hear my words, for they are powerful and will prevail; or, as +it is in the Hebrew, for they are sweet. + +140:7. As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: +Our bones are scattered by the side of hell. + +140:8. But to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my +trust, take not away my soul. + +140:9. Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the +stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity. + +140:10. The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass. + +I am alone, etc... Singularly protected by the Almighty, until I pass +all their nets and snares. + +Psalms Chapter 141 + +Voce mea. + +A prayer of David in extremity of danger. + +141:1. Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [1 +Kings 24.] + +141:2. I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made +supplication to the Lord. + +141:3. In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my +trouble: + +141:4. When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way +wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me. + +141:5. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that +would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath +regard to my soul. + +141:6. I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in +the land of the living. + +141:7. Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me +from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. + +141:8. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just +wait for me, until thou reward me. + +Psalms Chapter 142 + +Domine, exaudi. + +The psalmist in tribulation calleth upon God for his delivery. The +seventh penitential psalm. + +142:1. A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. [2 Kings 17.] +Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear +me in thy justice. + +142:2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no +man living shall be justified. + +142:3. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my +life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that +have been dead of old: + +142:4 And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is +troubled. + +142:5. I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I +meditated upon the works of thy hands. + +142:6. I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without +water unto thee. + +142:7. Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not +away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the +pit. + +142:8. Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I +hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have +lifted up my soul to thee. + +142:9. Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled: + +142:10. Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit +shall lead me into the right land: 11 for thy name's sake, O Lord, +thou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of +trouble: + +142:12. And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut +off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant. + +Psalms Chapter 143 + +Benedictus Dominus. + +The prophet praiseth God, and prayeth to be delivered from his enemies. +No worldly happiness is to be compared with that of serving God. + +A psalm of David against Goliath. + +143:1. Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and +my fingers to war. + +143:2. My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My +protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me. + +143:3. Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of +man, that thou makest account of him? + +143:4. Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. + +143:5. Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and +they shall smoke. + +143:6. Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy +arrows, and thou shalt trouble them. + +143:7. Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from +many waters: from the hand of strange children: + +143:8. Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right +hand of iniquity. + +143:9. To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and +an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee. + +143:10. Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant +David from the malicious sword: + +143:11. Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; +whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand +of iniquity: + +143:12. Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters +decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple: + +143:13. Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their +sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth: + +143:14. Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor +crying out in their streets. + +143:15. They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but +happy is that people whose God is the Lord. + +Psalms Chapter 144 + +Exaltabo te, Deus. + +A psalm of praise, to the infinite majesty of God. + +144:1. Praise, for David himself. I will extol thee, O God my king: and +I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever. + +144:2. Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; +yea, for ever and ever. + +144:3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his +greatness there is no end. + +144:4. Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall +declare thy power. + +144:5. They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy +holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works. + +144:6. And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall +declare thy greatness. + +144:7. They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: +and shall rejoice in thy justice. + +144:8. The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in +mercy. + +144:9. The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his +works. + +144:10. Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless +thee. + +144:11. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of +thy power: + +144:12. To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the +magnificence of thy kingdom. + +144:13. Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth +throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and +holy in all his works. + +144:14. The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are +cast down. + +144:15. The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat +in due season. + +144:16. Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living +creature. + +144:17. The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works. + +144:18. The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that +call upon him in truth. + +144:19. He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear +their prayer, and save them. + +144:20. The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he +will destroy. + +144:21. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh +bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever. + +Psalms Chapter 145 + +Lauda, anima. + +We are not to trust in men, but in God alone. + +145:1 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias. + +145:2. Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I +will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in +princes: + +145:3. In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. + +145:4. His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in +that day all their thoughts shall perish. + +145:5. Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose +hope is in the Lord his God: + +145:6. Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in +them. + +145:7. Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that +suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that +are fettered: + +145:8. The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that +are cast down: the Lord loveth the just. + +145:9. The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless +and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy. + +145:10. The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation +and generation. + +Psalms Chapter 146 + +Laudate Dominum. + +An exhortation to praise God for his benefits. + +146:1. Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God +be joyful and comely praise. + +146:2. The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the +dispersed of Israel. + +146:3. Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises. + +146:4. Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by +their names. + +146:5. Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom +there is no number. + +146:6. The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even +to the ground. + +146:7. Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp. + +146:8. Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the +earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the +service of men. + +146:9. Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that +call upon him. + +146:10. He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take +pleasure in the legs of a man. + +146:11. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that +hope in his mercy. + +Psalms Chapter 147 + +Lauda, Jerusalem. + +The church is called upon to praise God for his peculiar graces and +favours to his people. In the Hebrew, this psalm is joined to the +foregoing. + +Alleluia. + +147:12. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion. + +147:13. Because he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath +blessed thy children within thee. + +147:14. Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the +fat of corn. + +147:15. Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth +swiftly. + +147:16. Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes. + +147:17. He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the +face of his cold? + +He sendeth his crystal... That is, his ice. Some understand it of hail, +which is, as it were, ice, divided into particles or morsels. + +147:18. He shall send out his word, and shall melt them: his wind shall +blow, and the waters shall run. + +147:19. Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments +to Israel. + +147:20. He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his +judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia. + +Psalms Chapter 148 + +Laudate Dominum de caelis. + +All creatures are invited to praise their Creator. + +Alleluia. + +148:1. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise ye him in the high +places. + +148:2. Praise ye him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts. + +148:3. Praise ye him, O sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars and +light. + +148:4. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that +are above the heavens + +148:5. Praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they were made: he +commanded, and they were created. + +148:6. He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath +made a decree, and it shall not pass away. + +148:7. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all ye deeps: + +148:8. Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word: + +148:9. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars: + +148:10. Beasts and all cattle: serpents and feathered fowls: + +148:11. Kings of the earth and all people: princes and all judges of the +earth: + +148:12. Young men and maidens: let the old with the younger, praise the +name of the Lord: + +148:13. For his name alone is exalted. + +148:14. The praise of him is above heaven and earth: and he hath exalted +the horn of his people. A hymn to all his saints to the children of +Israel, a people approaching to him. Alleluia. + +Psalms Chapter 149 + +Cantate Domino. + +The church is particularly bound to praise God. + +Alleluia. + +149:1. Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the +church of the saints. + +149:2. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of +Sion be joyful in their king. + +149:3. Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the +timbrel and the psaltery. + +149:4. For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt +the meek unto salvation. + +149:5. The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their +beds. + +149:6. The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged +swords in their hands: + +149:7. To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the +people: + +149:8. To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles +of iron. + +149:9. To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is +to all his saints. Alleluia. + +Psalms Chapter 150 + +Laudate Dominum in sanctis. + +An exhortation to praise God with all sorts of instruments. + +Alleluia. + +150:1. Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the +firmament of his power. + +150:2. Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the +multitude of his greatness. + +150:3. Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery +and harp. + +150:4. Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and +organs. + +150:5. Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of +joy: let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 21 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8321.txt or 8321.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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